In a first for Australian States, the Government of South Australia and the City of Adelaide have signed key international climate change agreements that will assist the monitoring of greenhouse gas reduction targets and tackle climate change. The Compact of States and Regions and Compact...
Professor Peter Doherty, an Australian Nobel laureate of medicine, has revealed that his peers at a sustainability symposium in Hong Kong have expressed their dislike of Australia’s stance on climate change in the lead up to Paris in December, telling him that Australia is “very...
In its Climate Policy AGL stated that it will close all existing coal-fired power plants by 2050 and include carbon pricing in each capital investment decision related to its electricity generation assets. It will continue to invest in new renewable or near-zero emission technologies, and...
China and the United States have questioned Australia’s climate change targets and Direct Action Policy in a long list of questions submitted to the United Nations. China also questioned why Australia appeared to be doing less that it demanded of other developed countries and how...
A report based on a collaboration between World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Australian National University (ANU) stated that Australia could source all of its power needs from renewables by 2050 without incurring massive costs if there were clear national policy settings to...
On April 23 2015, The Australian Clean Energy Regulator who is responsible for running the Emission Reduction Fund (ERF) auctions on behalf of the Federal Government, announced that they had contracted 43 organisations with 144 projects to deliver 47 million tons of carbon abatement for...
