The Clean Energy Regulator has in the last few months dropped from its portfolio close to 15 times the amount of abatement that it added at the latest auction.
Highlights include new long-awaited ERF guidance from the Clean Energy Regulator, and a Victorian parliamentary hearing into waste and recycling. Jobs include a senior post managing NSW's contribution to national energy policy.
The Budget confirms the government is a long way from signing energy underwriting contracts and shows it has allocated less than $190 million in new funds to buy carbon credits over the next four years.
The Clean Energy Regulator has contracted to buy only 3.27 million tonnes of greenhouse gas abatement after last week's Emissions Reduction Fund auction, far less than it agreed to purchase at previous auctions.