The Australian cleantech sector is worth about $26 billion and employs over 45,000 people Australia-wide but it’s also a sector in which investment has so far lagged behind the rest of the world. With this in mind the Australian Clean Technologies Competition was launched last year as a way to provide another opportunity [...]
The concept of ‘green job’ stimulation in Asia provides us with interesting, and ethical, questions. Whereas the USA, Europe and Australia are developed countries with static or declining populations, most countries in Asia are not. So with their expanding populations, many of whom still exist in poverty, economic growth is still a fundamental [...]
The anticipation of the Clean Energy Future legislation (Carbon Tax to most of us), which comes into effect on the 1st July later this year, has led to a burgeoning information technology (IT) sub-sector – in cleantech and ‘green’ technology. Significant government funding will be spent on encouraging clean energy sources and their [...]
