Browsing: Environmental management

Office and residential property developer Investa is backing a call by the Australian Conservation Foundation for all political parties to support a national 'feed-in' tariff to make solar PV systems more economically viable. (plus audio)

Victorian coast strategy warns on sea level rise; Sydney Water sets out sewer access terms; Pilot coal-drying plant up and running; Federal department seeks legal advice on federal/state water laws; Flannery says price carbon at $50 a tonne (video link); Soot lands shipping company in court

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.

Proponents of about one in every seven projects with potential major environmental impacts have been on track to bypass the federal EPBC Act, until officials tapped them on the shoulder, according to the legislation's annual report.

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.

A Rudd Labor government would provide green loans to householders and insulation rebates to owners of rental properties, under the ALP's ‘Solar Schools – Solar Homes’ policy released today.

Abating greenhouse gases over the five years from 2008 to 2012 will cost the Commonwealth about $5.60 per tonne, according to the federal environment department annual report for 2006-07.

Almost 30% of the finance sector members of the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) now come from Australia and other Asia-Pacific economies, according to Martin Hancock, chair of UNEP FI. (with audio)