The Minerals and Energy Education and Training Institute (MEETI) starts the year by hosting a seminar on Carbon Taxing versus Cap & Trade.

This is done with the view of keeping the Copenhagen COP 15 affair alive for South African stakeholders when the media hype seems to have abated.

There is reason to suspect that between the year end festivities and the euphoria and anticipation round the 2010 world cup, life threatening anthropogenic global warming issues that culminated in world drama in Copenhagen, may have lost their mid December 2009 sting.

The CO2 seminar is scheduled for 27th of January 2010.

Representatives of various countries participated in the United Nations conference of parties held in December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

South Africa emerged as a hero of the moment when their representatives were first to unveil the country's reductions commitment early in the conference process.

By going to Copenhagen, countries presumably initiated processes where, based on anticipated commitments, they would subsequently elect preferred mechanisms of ratifying the conference outcome which had come to be known as 'a legally binding agreement', assuming that such would be reached.

Following the attendant grand portrayals, from the elaborate event organisation to the content leak drama of what came to be known as the 'Danish Text', it is cause for great wonder when media coverage of the COP15 subject appears to have disappeared with such suddenness.

With that the aims of MEETI's seminar of unpacking what seems like South African favored emissions reductions tools, Carbon Tax and Cap and Trade, might just be the pill to reenergize local discussions about how SA intends to deliver on its emissions reduction promises.

The Carbon Taxing versus Cap & Trade seminar, promises to demystify the ominous future of real cost implications for business when the government passes legislation and policies that uses the business tax system to reduce companies' emissions.

In this seminar, MEETI hosts experts in the field of emissions reduction mechanisms and trade, Mr. Ross Robertson, CA (SA) and member of the sustainability committee of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) and Ms. Trudi Hartzenberg, trade economist and Executive Director of TRALAC - a southern African Trade Law research organisation.

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