Browsing: <a href="/tag/energy-efficiency">Energy efficiency</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/carbon-law-policy-nger">Carbon law, policy/NGER</a>

• EPA Victoria holds town meeting on food company
  
• Use extra landfill cash to buy cheap carbon credits: Ai Group
  
• UN climate talks briefing on next week
  
• Industry department to upgrade energy rating website

Aluminium and gas companies that have a pipeline of energy efficiency projects will move quickly to snare ERF contracts, according to carbon analyst Reputex.

The Federal Government today repealed the Energy Efficiency Opportunities regulations ahead of the repeal of the main Act, and gazetted changes to the Carbon Farming Initiative.

Victoria's decision to axe its VEET energy efficiency scheme will create a range of problems for Direct Action.

Ahead of Friday's meeting of the Direct Action expert reference group, technical groups met yesterday on energy efficiency in industry and buildings.

The carbon compliance burden on industry is still too high, the EEO scheme serves no purpose and the RET is badly designed, says the Business Council of Australia.

The Energy Efficiency Opportunities scheme will be axed from July 1 next year and not charging large emitters means the Budget will be $7.4 billion worse off by the end of FY2017, Treasurer Joe Hockey revealed today.

• Senate rejects bill to abolish the CEFC
  
• New certification scheme targets building retrofit professionals
  
• Encourage carbon offsets with co-benefits, report says

• ERF cuts pointless without penalties: Grattan Institute
  
• Low-carbon investment dollars will 'sit on the sidelines'
  
• Seek efficiency gains from existing homes: Master Builders
  
• Carbon price 'costly and ineffective': Refrigerants industry
  
• Farm-based abatement projects won't be the cheapest: NFF

• Three councils dropped from carbon-liable list
  
• We won't vote for repeal, Shorten confirms
  
• Governments consider tighter efficiency controls for transformers