Preparing for Climate Change through Energy Internet and eVehicles: Canadian Prime Minister creates carbon trading minister position

Energy Internet and eVehicles Overview

Governments around the world are wrestling with the challenge of how to prepare society for inevitable climate change. To date most people have been focused on how to reduce Green House Gas emissions, but now there is growing recognition that regardless of what we do to mitigate against climate change the planet is going to be significantly warmer in the coming years with all the attendant problems of more frequent droughts, flooding, sever storms, etc. As such we need to invest in solutions that provide a more robust and resilient infrastructure to withstand this environmental onslaught especially for our electrical and telecommunications systems and at the same time reduce our carbon footprint.

Linking renewable energy with high speed Internet using fiber to the home combined with autonomous eVehicles and dynamic charging where vehicle's batteries are charged as it travels along the road, may provide for a whole new "energy Internet" infrastructure for linking small distributed renewable energy sources to users that is far more robust and resilient to survive climate change than today's centralized command and control infrastructure. These new energy architectures will also significantly reduce our carbon footprint. For more details please see:

Using autonomous eVehicles for Renewable Energy Transportation and Distribution: http://goo.gl/bXO6x and http://goo.gl/UDz37

Free High Speed Internet to the Home or School Integrated with solar roof top: http://goo.gl/wGjVG

High level architecture of Internet Networks to survive Climate Change: https://goo.gl/24SiUP

Architecture and routing protocols for Energy Internet: http://goo.gl/niWy1g

How to use Green Bond Funds to underwrite costs of new network and energy infrastructure: https://goo.gl/74Bptd

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Canadian Prime Minister creates carbon trading minister position

[This is important news for the ICT industry and academia. Although most people associate carbon trading with big power plants etc, the ICT technologies may be in the single most important tool to reduce carbon emissions, by as much as 15-20%. With proper baseline emissions measurements, accounting and auditing (ISO 14064) these abatement techniques can be sold as carbon offsets. More importantly ICT companies and network operators can trade these offsets with their customers for new “green” products and services (“gCommerce”) which creates a virtuous circle in carbon abatement. The market potential in the US for such gCommerce transactions could be $20 billion per year with carbon trading at $20 per ton and as much as $100 billion per year if carbon trades at $100 per ton (which is the number Stern report recommends if we are going to slow down climate change). For more details on the economic and business benefits of cap and trade to the ICT industry please see http://green-broadband.blogspot.com/. Extract from www.pointsource.comf—BSA]

http://www.pointcarbon.com/news/1.1037351

Canadian PM creates carbon trading minister position
Published: 15 Jan 2009 21:51 CET Last updated: 15 Jan 2009 21:59 CET
Canada’s prime minister has appointed an official to oversee North American carbon trading.
Bob Hamilton, formerly associate secretary of the Treasury Board, will become associate deputy minister of the environment, a newly created position.

His responsibilities will be to develop a continental North American carbon emissions trading scheme with the new US administration, said a source familiar with the matter.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s appointment of a minister that deals specifically with carbon trading demonstrates how serious the government is about going forward with a continental scheme with the US, said the source.

Some observers think the Canadian federal government has abandoned its own plans for a domestic carbon trading scheme in favour of developing a joint emissions trading programme with the US.

President-elect Barack Obama is scheduled to meet Harper soon after his inauguration. The heads of state are expected to discuss a North American cap-and-trade scheme among several other issues.

Obama has said he is committed to creating an economy-wide, mandatory cap-and-trade programme to help reduce US greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050.

Financial experience

The source added that the appointment of a finance specialist within the Environment Ministry is unprecendented.

He said this move could have been in response to criticism that environment ministers have previously been appointed without much financial experience.

Hamilton was associate secretary of the Treasury Board since August 2008. Before that he was a senior assistant deputy minister in the tax policy branch of the Department of Finance between 2003 and 2005.