The Rudd government has shelved its plans for a national energy policy blueprint for Australia’s energy needs because of uncertainty about the emission trading scheme and the cost to electricity generators of cutting carbon emissions.
The delay adds to uncertainty about the required $100 billion investment necessary to avoid electricity brown-outs, and industry leaders have called [...]
Investment in renewables in Australasia has dropped by more than anywhere else in the world, amidst uncertainty over emission trading and the loss of value of renewable energy certificates.
Green deals fell by 59 percent year on year in Australasia, from 29 percent in 2008 to just 12 last year, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ 2009 Renewable Deals review, [...]
The cost of slashing Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent on 2000 levels by 2020 is about $1.8 billion, or as little as $185 per household, according to new research by the non-profit outfit ClimateWorks.
Most of the cuts would come from improving energy efficiency in buildings and appliances and growing trees on farms. [...]
Australia is already experiencing climate change, with hotter springs, declining rainfall and sea level rises more than three times the global average in some areas, according to a report released today by the nation’s two leading scientific agencies.
The “State of the Climate” snapshot, drawn together by the CSIRO and the Bureau [...]
Australians will pay up to $100 million to remove foil insulation or install electrical safety switches in 50,000 homes, in further changes to remedy problems caused by the government’s suspected insulation scheme.
The government had earlier committed to test the 50,000 homes for ceilings live with electricity because of poor installation of foil insulation, [...]
The CSIRO Staff Association has accused the Opposition of using Senate estimates to wage a political campaign to discredit the national science agency’s climate change research, the Canberra Times reported today.
”Our scientists are being subjected to inappropriate, politically motivated attacks during these public hearings,” association president Michael Borgas told the newspaper. He also [...]
The Government is delaying by least a month the latest and much-expected vote on its proposed emissions trading scheme (ETS), which was meant to take place next week.
Rudd just last week told the press that he would press on with the proposed emissions trading scheme. Today Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said the delay does [...]
Fully switching to renewable energy by 2020 should be the focus of Australia’s climate change debate, according to Beyond Zero Emissions, a grassroots advocacy group hoping to garner support for dramatic cuts in greenhouse gas emission.
Analysis released by the group yesterday suggests that an investment in concentrated solar thermal plants at 12 sites across [...]
In spite of the global economic slowdown, the market for trading carbon dioxide grew by 68 percent last year compared with the previous year.
The value of the market remained roughly unchanged after carbon prices fell by nearly 50 percent last year, according to PointCarbon. But the market itself rose to 8.2 billion metric tonnes [...]
World concern about climate change has fallen in the past two years, according to an opinion poll done on the eve of 190-nation talks in Copenhagen meant to agree a U.N. deal to fight global warming.
A Nielsen/Oxford University poll of more than 27,000 web users found that only 37 percent of respondents in [...]
