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WORK DIARY OF PATROL TEAM LEADER – SALISU (12 – 16 MAY 2020)
My name is Salisu Fuseini. I have been working for Mere Plantations for a little over 8 years now. My job is Patrol Team Leader. I love going to work, every day is different. We have our basic functions that need to be performed each day but there is always...
Mandatory Reporting of Climate Change Risks by Large Companies and Asset Holders. By Michael Rawlinson QC
The Treasury has announced that large organisations and those financial organisations which have holdings within them are likely to be required to report the risks which they directly or (via their holdings) indirectly face at the hands of climate...
CARBON OFFSETTING IN AVIATION: THE SIZE OF THE TASK
CARBON OFFSETTING IN AVIATION: THE SIZE OF THE TASK Introduction I have recently blogged on the ability and, indeed, the necessity of the aviation industry to engage in carbon offsetting in order to try to reach carbon nett neutrality by 2050. I will assume...
WORK DIARY OF LADY TRACTOR OPERATOR – ATU, JOSEPHINE OYINTEKO (20TH – 25TH JULY 2020)
Name: Atu Josephine Oyinteko Age: 25 years Place of Birth: Kyebi/ Eastern Region. Education: SHS – completed 2013 Marital Status: Single. MONDAY 20TH JULY 2020 Performed the daily vehicle checks by checking engine and hydraulic oil levels, water, tyres, fluids,...
A week in the life of Mike – Plant Fitter/Mechanic for Mere Plantations
Hi, my name is Michael Amponsah. I am 30 years old, I come from Mallam, a district of Accra, the capital city of Ghana. I now live in Abofour, a small town on the edge of the Afram Headwaters Forest Reserve. I went to school in Accra at the New Life School. That...
UK CARBON TRADING SYSTEM & THE CHANGING ROLE OF CARBON OFFSETTING
Introduction We should draw a clear distinction at the outset between two separate, albeit related, concepts. As I set out in my last series of blogs, one method of ensuring that a nation’s carbon emissions reduce over time is by constructing a ‘cap...
(3/3) THE PERSONAL IS GLOBAL: A whistle-stop tour of climate change finance and how it affects us all whether we like it or not….
Let us now return to our main narrative. Kyoto set emissions targets until 2020 but long before that it became clear that even the systems set up under Kyoto would be insufficient to bring about the required level of carbon change. Zahar analyses (convincingly to...
(2/3) THE PERSONAL IS GLOBAL: A whistle-stop tour of climate change finance and how it affects us all whether we like it or not….
There were several problems with Rio. First, it set no binding targets; second, it left the provision of funding ad hoc; third it did not really consider how private capital should be utilised for carbon mitigation and fourth, it left the majority of the world...
(1/3) THE PERSONAL IS GLOBAL: A whistle-stop tour of climate change finance and how it affects us all whether we like it or not….
In this series of three linked initial blogs, I want to show you that however large the global figures for the production of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) generally and CO2 particularly may seem, climate change is a problem which can be broken down into manageable chunks,...
Mere Plantations: New member to the TTF
Mere Plantations, a UK company, established in January 2007 to reforest 10,000 Acres of UNFCCC classified degraded forest land within the Afram Headwaters Forest Reserve in Ghana, are the latest member to the UK Timber Trade Federation. Mere are one of largest...