High Court rules licence variation invalid; Alcoa hit with million dollar legal bill; Turnbull and Garrett slug it out in Canberra debate; Tax carbon and abolish fuel tax, says Australian thinktank study; NYC mayor favours tax over trading
Woodside has secured what is potentially a $100 million deal with carbon offsets provider CO2 Australia to partially offset emissions from it's $11.2 billion Pluto gas field development. (with audio)
An alliance of major environment groups is warning businesses wanting to use their electricity purchases to drive new investment in renewable energy generation that some energy retailers are providing "seriously misleading" descriptions of their green electricity products.
GHG permits likely to be worth $105 billion over a decade; Gore sees 'limited role' for nuclear; EBA seeks clean energy pledges from major parties; Qenos signs major recycled water deal; SA sets out details of licence fee restructure.
Waterfront landowners who pay an annual premium could get a payout if their land is inundated by the sea as a result of climate change, Australia's largest general insurer has suggested.
Soaring WA gas prices a 'greenhouse risk' says industry alliance; Qld amends environmental legislation; NSW offers green business grants; Concerns over slowing absorption of CO2; Pew Centre joins alliance to look at 'quality' offsets; NZ joins EU, US and Canadian carbon markets partnership; Greens call for home energy efficiency subsidies; NSW aerial sprayer fined
Energy efficiency has been heralded as offering a huge, cheap and easy slab of greenhouse gas abatement. Yet few organisations bothered to comment on Australia's proposed 'stage 2' energy efficiency measures, and many of those that did are unimpressed.
Australia needs a carbon price of at least A$45 a tonne to trigger large-scale investment in cleaner coal technologies, according to Ralph Hillman, head of the Australian Coal Association.
A federal Labor government would use the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target (MRET) scheme to ensure at least 20% of Australia's electricity is generated from renewable sources by 2020, Labor announced today. It would then want MRET phased out from 2020.