2008-08-22
Business Spectator
Thirsty murk
The Chinese Government intends to spend $A350 billion on cleaning the country's environment. It is an attractive opportunity for Australian companies to expand into China.
2008-08-14
The Daily Mail
Australia keen to push clean energy in Guangdong
GUANGZHOU Australia is seeking to strengthen cooperation on clean energy with Guangdong province. "There is a great opportunity for Australian providers of environmental technologies to take an active role in assisting the province move toward a more energy-efficient economy," Australia's Minister of Trade...
2008-08-14
Abc News online
Wind farm won't affect threatened species: Commonwealth
The Federal Government has declared a proposed wind farm near Kyneton will not affect threatened species.
2008-08-13
People's Daily Online
Australia keen to push clean energy
Australia is seeking to strengthen cooperation on clean energy with Guangdong province. 'There is a great opportunity for Australian providers of environmental technologies to take an active role in assisting the province move toward a more energy-efficient economy,' Australia's Minister of Trade Simon Crean.
2008-08-07
The Australian
Call to strengthen renewables target
CONSERVATIONISTS have urged the Rudd Government to strengthen its proposed mandatory renewable energy target to meet its long-term greenhouse gas reduction goals, not ditch it as the Productivity Commission and Labor's adviser have suggested.
2008-08-07
BRW.
Take your partners
2008-07-31
Calibre Macro World
Austrade to stage clean energy mission at Beijing Olympics
(Xinhua via COMTEX News Network) -- Australian Trade Commission ( Austrade)'s Business Club Australia, the official Australian business program of the Beijing Olympics, will stage a Clean Energy Mission during the Beijing Olympics.
2008-07-30
The Australian
Green firms aim for Olympic gold
AS the Olympic family gathers in Beijing amid a pall of grey haze, Austrade is planning to use the 2008 Games to promote a host of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the clean and green business to sell their wares in China.
2008-07-17
The Australian
Experts divided on carbon tax
A LEADING US economist has backed the simplicity of a carbon tax to reduce greenhouse emissions rather than the more complicated emissions trading scheme proposed by the Rudd Government yesterday.
2008-07-17
The Australian
ETS worth $11bn in three years - analyst
AUSTRALIA'S new emissions trading scheme could be worth $11 billion within three years, a carbon market analyst says.
2008-07-17
Illawarra Mercury
Slow burn: Rudd eases carbon pain
PHILLIP COOREY AND STEPHANIE PEATLING HOUSEHOLDS earning up to $150,000 and the nation's heaviest polluters will be helped to cope with the introduction of an emissions trading scheme in 2010 that the Government says will be 'calm and measured'.
2008-07-17
The Australian
Pragmatist trumps Garnaut's theory
ROSS Garnaut's 537-page blueprint for a national trading scheme was inspired by pure economic theory.
2008-07-17
Adelaide Now
Rudd Government offsets to ease in carbon emissions tax
HOUSEHOLD electricity prices and other essential living costs will rise when the Government introduces its key response to climate change, an emissions trading scheme, in less than two years.
2008-07-17
Adelaide Now
Advertiser Editorial: Sensible approach to climate
REDUCING Australia's greenhouse gas emissions let alone those of the world is a complex and difficult task. This complexity was strikingly high lighted yesterday with the release by Climate Change Minister Penny Wong of the Federal Government's green paper on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
2008-07-17
Herald Sun
Emissions: How carbon scheme works
CARBON emissions trading is designed to reduce greenhouse pollution. When the scheme begins in 2010, caps will be placed on the amount of carbon dioxide that major polluters can emit.
2008-07-17
The Australian
Government delay in carbon modelling
TREASURY modelling on the federal Government's carbon trading regime will not be available before the deadline for industry responses on the sweeping changes to Australia's corporate and economic landscape.
2008-07-17
Tasmanian Examiner
State `has carbon advantage'
smania' TASMANIA has a natural carbon advantage over the rest of Australia, Tasmanian Climate Action Council chairwoman Kate Crowley said yesterday. Dr Crowley said the latest Australian Government Department of Climate Change figures in the State and Territory Greenhouse Gas Inventory shows Tasmania ahead...
2008-07-16
Business Spectator
ETS in place by 2010
The Rudd Government has vowed to go ahead with its emissions trading scheme by 2010, but has canvassed a whole range of measures to reduce the cost of carbon on households and business, including free permits for the most heavily polluting industries.
2008-07-16
WA Today.com.au
Business gives wary support to climate plan
Business groups reacted with cautious support for the Government's carbon emissions reduction scheme, outlined in the Green Paper released today by Climate Change Minister Penny Wong.
2008-07-16
Crikey
Wong's Green paper: what it means
This is as much a handout bonanza for our biggest polluters as it is an emissions trading scheme. The Government has committed that every cent raised by the scheme will be returned to businesses or the community.
2008-07-16
Manufacturers Monthly
Clean energy industry supports 2010 start to carbon reduction
THE Clean Energy Council said today that complementary policies will cushion the cost of emissions trading; and that the federal governmentâ⠬⠢s green paper outlining their carbon pollution reduction scheme is an important next step in developing Australiaâ⠬⠢s climate change policy framework.
2008-07-16
Business Spectator
Green paper delivers the sizzle
The head of Penny Wongs Department of Climate Change, Martin Parkinson (no relation) used an interesting analogy for an emissions trading scheme when briefing journalists at the green paper lock-up in Canberra this morning.