According to the World Bank’s top climate change official Rachel Kyte, the momentum behind countries and businesses moving to price greenhouse gas emissions can no longer be ignored. Nearly 40 countries and 20 regions currently mandate a price on carbon dioxide and the associated measures...
If you are a company looking for the absolute best price you can get for your carbon emissions reductions, then following an announcement on Tuesday May 27 2015 you need look no further than Australia. In evidence presented to Senate Estimates, the Clean Energy Regulator...
The recently elected Labor Government in Queensland has committed to generating half of its electricity requirement using renewable sources by 2030, and to ensuring that 1 million Queensland homes have rooftop solar systems by 2020 (currently 400,000 homes have these systems).Energy Minister Mark Bailey confirmed...
In the past few weeks the costs associated with poor air quality in India and Europe have been published in terms of health effects, lost productivity and ultimately, mortality. In a previous blog I discussed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s response to Delhi being pronounced...
According to the Climate Institute, the 2015 Federal Budget announced tonight (May 12) doesn’t inspire confidence regarding plans for a modern green economy in Australia. According to CEO John Connor, the Budget continued the attacks on both climate and clean energy programs and increased pressure...
According to the European Environment State and Outlook report 2015 (SOER) published by the European Environment Agency, green industries in Europe grew by 50% between 2000 and 2011. This growth was against the backdrop of a severe bust which hit every other sector of the...
World Bank Lead Economist Gayatri Acharya has highlighted Australia’s “glorious distinction” of being the first country to remove a carbon price in a presentation in Melbourne on 5 May 2015. She noted that on the world map of carbon pricing which includes 60 countries, Australia...
The Victorian State Government’s Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability has published a report following a strategic audit of the implementation of Environmental Management Systems within Government Departments, Sustainability Victoria and the Victorian Environmental Protection Authority for 2013/14. The results of the annual strategic audit are required...
In its submission to the Abbott Government’s review of post 2020 emission targets, the Australian Industry (Ai) Group has estimated that the cost of Australia having to play “catch up” and match the emission reductions proposed by the United States and the European Union could...
More than 450 delegates from the World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD) met this week in Montreux Switzerland to develop emissions reduction targets that will be announced in Paris in December this year. Representatives from companies worldwide attended with a notable exception- Australia.Delegates met...
