Browsing: Green carbon

Dumped Coalition leader Malcolm Turnbull today accused new leader Tony Abbott of not wanting to do anything about climate change, but Abbott's likely new climate spokesman Greg Hunt says it's time to look at what 'direct action' can deliver.

• Show us Morgan Stanley, Macfarlane insists
  
• NZ farmers push for exemption
  
• Wong heads to Spain
  
• Rudd to make urban funding conditional on climate measures

• Court orders director to pay $91,000 over landfill breaches
  
• WA seeks input on feed-in tariff design
  
• NSW offers energy efficiency training course grants
  
• WWF Australia chief: how the negotiators could buy time
  
• 'Livestock emissions underplayed'

• Food and grocery sector releases sustainability report
  
• DCC seeks input on NGERS methodologies
  
• Victorian inquiry into soil carbon kicks off
  
• 'Coalition plans would turn CPRS surplus to deficit'
  
• 'I'll clear my diary': Boswell to NFF
  
• U.S. Senate bill hearings to begin
  
• SA seeks feedback on new licence structure

The Rudd Government should direct 1% of CPRS revenue to an adaptation fund, harness the 'full potential' of land managers and change scheme rules for carbon sink forests, says the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists.

Neither side has got it right on agriculture and excluding more sectors places a heavier burden on those that remain, says Peter Shergold, the chief architect of the Howard Government's trading scheme roadmap.

The CPRS is just one of several ways to reduce agricultural emissions, but Australia must avoid a weak or 'do-nothing' approach, says a Climate Institute discussion paper released today.

The Greens today released a comprehensive package of 12 bills they say would tackle the climate change challenge on all fronts – from native forest protection through to energy efficiency.

• New panel will verify corporate EEO compliance
  
• 'Cut CPRS permits to match voluntary action,' green groups urge
  
• ACCI climate survey delivers mixed results
  
• ACF warns against land use 'free kick'
  
• 'Developed nation pledges still fall short'