Meeting the carbon challenge? The place of your house in the city

By Juris Geste - posted Friday, 25 July 2008

The Garnaut prescription for dealing with our greenhouse emissions is indeed wicked. Professor Garnaut  himself describes the challenges ahead as diabolical, equivalent to “tails I win, heads you loose”. There are all kinds of prognostications about costs and likely scenarios. If most of the Garnaut flagged actions and recommendations are implemented, many aspects of life as well as the economy will soon be different.

As more than 80 per cent of our population lives in urbanised centres, it is also timely to reflect what implications the new carbon trading future might have on cities and towns. We have examined various climate change…