Browsing: <a href="/tag/renewables-low-emissions">Renewables, low emissions</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/biofuels">Biofuels</a>

• Qantas and Airbus to fund Queensland biofuel facility
  
• Latest Safeguard reporting data released by CER
  
• Safeguard Mechanism reforms pass in Parliament
  
• IKEA adds three NSW solar farms to global portfolio

• ARENA canvasses views on bioenergy
  
• Jacobs sets 2030 'carbon negative' goal
  
• Council plans 5MW solar farm on former landfill site

The Clean Energy Regulator on Friday announced approval for two companies to earn carbon credits through bioenergy projects.

• Biofuels bill establishes new powers to regulate price
  
• Climate Institute calls for electricity sector 'direct action'
  
• Sporting and community groups to benefit from ERF

The Australian sugar and bio-energy industries are in for a shake up with the approval yesterday of a processing plant in North Queensland that will produce sugar, ethanol and power and will also be capable of processing timber and crop wastes.

• $350m 'carbon price' write-down for TRUenergy power plant
  
• No place for alternative fuel mandates, new Federal strategy says
  
• Coal mine penalised $117,000
  
• Victoria makes EPBC referral justifying 'strategic' alpine grazing
  
• Focus $10bn clean energy body on RD&D, not deployment, says ESAA

The Gillard Government today revealed the emission limits it might impose through mandatory vehicle CO2 standards applying from 2015, in a discussion paper that asks whether car-makers should be allowed to 'bank' credits if they reach targets ahead of time.

• Greens and independents urge new renewables fix
  
• Sydney's waste an ideal aviation fuel resource: Qantas chief
  
• Burke proposes to reject $950 million Great Barrier Reef development
  
• Combet selects 13 projects for climate change adaptation funding

In a development with important lessons on managing relationships with regulators, the Queensland Government won't allow Cougar Energy to restart its underground coal gasification trial, after receiving an independent scientific report that unfavourably contrasts the company's risk management approaches with those of another UCG business.

• Shell seeks special permit to export hazardous waste
  
• Queensland delays 5% ethanol mandate due to Federal 'uncertainties'
  
• International alliance details key climate finance measures
  
• Infigen proposes $150 million solar farm
  
• Origin on track for 2020 emissions intensity target