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  • Carbon decision to save Oz polluters $2.5 billion

    September 5, 2012 - no Comments

    Carbon analytics company RepuTex has reported that Australia’s top polluters will save approximately $2.5 billion over 5 years as a result of the government’s decision to align Australia’s carbon scheme

  • Push for Australasian ETS

    July 15, 2011 - no Comments

    Australia and NZ could be part of a unified Australasian emissions trading scheme, according to respective treasurers Wayne Swan and Bill English. The two ministers met in Wellington this week

  • Guidelines for farmers’ offset schemes released

    January 4, 2011 - no Comments

    The federal government has released draft laws outlining how its carbon offset scheme will work for farmers, forest growers and landholders. The Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) will allow farmers, forest

  • Carbon price would be less painful than strong dollar

    November 23, 2010 - no Comments

    Australia’s economy has felt a bigger impact from the recent surge of the Australian dollar than it would have from the introduction of a carbon price, according to a report

  • Combet asks Commission to examine carbon price

    November 15, 2010 - no Comments

    The Federal Government has tasked the Productivity Commission with investigating how other countries are implementing a carbon price. The Productivity Commission to look at the effective carbon price in a

  • Business roundtable on climate change set up

    October 26, 2010 - no Comments

    The Government has announced the membership of a new roundtable that has been established to engage the business community on the government’s climate change policies. The roundtable will include business

  • ASX 100 boards engaging on climate change

    October 20, 2010 - no Comments

    Australian companies surveyed by this year’s Carbon Disclosure Project rank equal third globally for board and executive engagement on climate change, despite policy uncertainty. Ninety-four per cent (94 per cent)

  • Report: Australia trails the world in climate policy

    October 18, 2010 - no Comments

    Australia, the world’s biggest exporter of coal, is trailing global efforts to reduce carbon pollution and risks falling short of 2020 targets, the Sydney-based Climate Institute has said in a

  • Carbon Market Institute to set up in Melborune

    October 18, 2010 - no Comments

      A national Carbon Market Institute is to be set up in Melbourne with the aim of making the city a major centre for carbon market business in the Asia-Pacific

  • Business welcomes climate change committee

    September 27, 2010 - no Comments

    Business leaders have welcomed the establishment of a climate change committee to oversee the establishment of a carbon price in Australia. Yesterday Australia’s prime minister Julia Gillard announced the committee,