Shadow Climate Change Minister Greg Hunt has outlined how the Direct Action Emission Reduction Fund (DAERF) might work, while at the Australian Alliance to Save Energy Summer Study conference in Sydney.
Winners of abatement auction rounds will be awarded contracts providing guaranteed payment rates from government for each tonne of CO2 abatement they deliver.
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Robert Tromop, a New Zealander who heads the energy efficiency unit at the International Energy Agengcy (IEA) in Paris, says energy efficiency requires an upfront investment of around half a trillion dollars a year - which ironically equates roughly to the IEA’s estimate of annual subsidies paid to the global fossil fuel industry.
Tromop concludes.
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A new collaborative network of health organisations has agreed to joint action to raise awareness of the adverse health effects of Australia’s current minerals and energy policy at a meeting in Canberra this week.
Hosted by five national health organisations, the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA), Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA), National Rural Health Alliance.
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By Jane Andrew, University of Sydney and Corinne Cortese, University of Wollongong
Five years ago, we really didn’t have a clue what an organisation’s carbon impact might look like, and few firms had any sort of carbon-oriented business plan. Now, the trend is to fill this gap by producing carbon reports.
But within this story.
By Tim Lubcke, Monash University
The Coalition has promised that if it takes government in September, it will get rid of the price on carbon emissions established by the Australian Labor Party. In its place, the party will implement a Direct Action Plan, its way of reducing emissions. This plan relies mainly on
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The National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) has been going for about five years but the Federal Government hasn't extended its funding and so from June it's expected to be wound up.
There's been no commitment to extend it or help it continue co-ordinating those projects. And more than 100 researchers will be affected nationally.
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Better Place, the battery swapping network for electric cars, is winding down its Australian and North American operations. However, commentators from the Fifth Estate say the reasons are not so bad.
Read Fifth Estate's perspective on the story (as at 12 February 2013) here.
Some speculate that the.
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The UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) is working with government and industry to divert urine from the sewerage system for reuse as agricultural fertiliser. It’s the flipside of the Institute's pioneering research into how to manage the world’s finite supply of phosphate, a vital ingredient in fertiliser.
Building giant Lend Lease will install the.
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Whether you are a LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability) company or a LOHAS shopper, you need to understand the megatrend of Conscious Capitalism — because it represents the larger economic context in which the critical trend of sustainability continues to unfold.
Patricia Aburdene's article explains why. She co-authored the number one New York Times bestseller.
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Volunteers nationwide will take part in the annual Clean up Australia Day event on Sunday March 3, 2013.
And businesses can get in on the action too with a specially tailored program for business.
Details are available here: http://www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au/about/resource-centre/media
Business Clean Up Day - Tuesday 26 February.
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