Browsing: Grants, finance

• New record: Spot trade of carbon credits at $20.85
  
• Cyber attack concern prompts second shutdown of Clean Energy Regulator's website
  
• Former Rio Tinto senior executive to join ARENA board

The CEFC will provide a $16.5 million loan for a plastic recycling plant jointly backed by Cleanaway, packaging company Pact and beverage business Asahi, marking the first loan issued under the green bank's $100 million recycling fund.

The federal government will provide a $175 million loan to help establish a major coal mine in Queensland.

• New law will make federal NAIF funding easier for WA hydrogen infrastructure
  
• WA EPA waits on Asian Renewable Energy Hub's federal discussions
  
• $1.3 billion solar program lacks a proper business case, audit finds

• Fatality raises new concerns about renewable industry safety
  
• Senate disallows Taylor's ARENA regulation
  
• Whitehaven Coal, Adani to brief politicians on financing difficulties

With the help of an ARENA grant, Rio Tinto will examine the feasibility of using renewable hydrogen instead of fossil gas at its Yarwun alumina refinery.

• ARENA to launch $43m industrial energy program
  
• Queensland allocates $60m to boost carbon and environmental markets
  
• Transport agencies launch sustainability program

The Queensland government today quadrupled its pre-election commitment to spend $500 million on renewables and hydrogen, with the money to be spent by state-owned energy companies.

• Renewed push to cut Nyrstar's lead emissions
  
• Right acquired to purchase Australian carbon units at $25 in 2023
  
• Grants up to $1.5m on offer to cut livestock methane

After last year becoming the first buyer of Reef Credits, HSBC bank has teamed with the Nature Conservancy Australia to plan the world's first issuance of a nature-focused "blue bond".