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Federal Opposition leader Tony Abbott has vowed to look after the interests of the resources industry during a whistlestop trip to the West Australian mining town of Kalgoorlie.
Click here for full storyThe Gillard government has been accused of leaving its climate change policy to a ''giant focus group'' and proposing pointless power station regulations that would not stop new coal-fired plants being built.
Click here for full storyAustralia won't be able to meet its targets for reducing carbon gas emissions without charging polluters, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Friday as she announced her government's climate change policy ahead of elections next month.
Click here for full storyAustralia is an increasingly attractive investment destination for renewable energy projects. Australian renewable energy resources including solar, wind, geothermal, bioenergy and marine are world class, yet remain largely undeveloped – with less than 5 percent of Australia’s electricity generation currently provided by renewable energy.
Click here for full storyA year and a half after President Barack Obama breathed new life into global talks on a climate treaty, the United States is back in a familiar role -- the holdout.
Click here for full storyAustralia’s Labor government plans to spend A$394 million ($353 million) over the next four years to replace old vehicles with energy-efficient models.
Click here for full storyThe Greens want to completely replace Australia's reliance on coal with renewable energy sources such as wind and solar.
Click here for full storyAUSTRALIA’S renewable energy industry was reeling yesterday after discovering a $520million budget cut to low-emissions technology in the fine print of Julia Gillard’s ‘‘cash-for-clunkers’’ announcement.
Click here for full storyPlagued by Spain’s economic recession and subsidy cuts, renewable energy businesses are following the sun and wind to Latin America in search of profits.
Click here for full storyThe financial incentives to encourage renewable energy generation, both for use and for export back to the grid, are suddenly starting to look very attractive, and are within the reach of far more people than ever before.
Click here for full storyASEAN Energy Ministers yesterday agreed on an 8 per cent reduction in regional Energy Intensity by 2015, based on 2005 levels.
Click here for full storyBARACK Obama's push for bold climate change legislation to curb US carbon emissions has been abandoned, after leaders of his Democratic Party accepted they lacked enough votes in the Senate.
Click here for full storyAustralian scientists claim just by harnessing one percent of the country’s untapped geothermal energy from underground could produce 26,000 years worth of clean electricity power. Australia is the world’s biggest coal exporter and primarily uses coal power to generate nearly 77% of its electricity. But recently the government wants to invest in more renewable sources.
Click here for full storyThe Greens want to completely replace Australia's reliance on coal with renewable energy sources such as wind and solar.
Greens Senator Christine Milne said yesterday: “Australia can harness our tremendous resources of the sun, wind, ocean, Earth and human ingenuity to replace our reliance on coal with 100 per cent renewable energy within decades."
Senator Milne said this could be achieved by 2030 with the right preparation and infrastructure
Click here for full storyAUSTRALIA’S renewable energy industry was reeling yesterday after discovering a $520million budget cut to low-emissions technology in the fine print of Julia Gillard’s ‘‘cash-for-clunkers’’ announcement.
Ms Gillard said that owners of pre-1995 vehicles will be able to claim $2000 from January 1 next year to upgrade to cleaner cars.
Click here for full storyAustralia's largest energy retailer AGL Energy Ltd. (AGK.AX: Quote) has made a bond debut in the U.S. private placement market with a US$300 million issue to refinance debt, it said on Friday.
Click here for full storyI am an ordinary Australian. I grew up in country Victoria, and moved to the city to go to university. My brother is an engineer, my sister studying to be a physiotherapist. My family are farmers and builders and teachers.
Click here for full storyWhile China may be set to embrace emissions trading to tackle greenhouse gases, delayed action remains the order of the day in the United States and Australia, and at the United Nations.
Click here for full storyVictorian Premier John Brumby certainly didn’t miss with the timing of the state’s large-scale solar power plant initiative.
Click here for full storyUP TO 10 large-scale solar power plants would be built in regional Victoria under a state government scheme to run a quarter of the state on renewable energy by 2020.
Click here for full storyWA renewable energy development company Mid West Energy is urging the state government to act quickly following a decision by the Victorian government to support solar power projects.
Click here for full storyAGL Energy Ltd., Australia’s largest electricity retailer, said it raised $300 million from its first sale of bonds to U.S. private investors.The Sydney-based company sold $165 million of 12-year notes that it will swap back to Australian-dollar debt paying a margin of 259 basis points more the bank bill swap rate, according to a regulatory filing.
Click here for full storyTHE Coalition, Greens and a chorus of economists and environmental groups have condemned Labor's new climate change policy.
Click here for full storyAustralia's prime minister Julia Gillard has unveiled a revised climate change policy, promising tougher standards for new power stations.
Click here for full storyJULIA Gillard has promised a $1.1 billion renewable energy project that she says will make power prices cheaper under Labor than under Tony Abbott.
Click here for full storyAS CROCODILE Dundee might say if he took to the stump: ''That's not a policy, this is a policy.'' Prime Minister Julia Gillard's exercise in small-target politics in Brisbane yesterday confirmed both major parties are missing in action on climate this election.
Click here for full storyAustralia’s first female Prime Minister Julia Gillard has promised investments of up to A$1bn ($892m) over ten years to promote the use of renewable energy sources.
Click here for full storyFederal Labor's plan to connect more green energy to the nation's electricity grid is the best possible news for South Australia, Premier Mike Rann says.
Click here for full storyGuy Abrahams is a former solicitor and art gallery director turned environmental activist. As well as completing his Environmental Masters at Melbourne University, Abrahams spends much of his time spruiking his climate change message to community groups around Victoria.
Click here for full storyONE of Australia's biggest fund managers yesterday said huge amounts of money available for investment in technology to fight climate change was exiting Australia because of inadequate government policy support.
Click here for full storyA survey of groups representing young voters has found climate change, unemployment and education are some of the key issues for the election campaign.
Click here for full storyA GOVERNMENT that is serious about taking action in any given area generally does exactly that - it takes action. After all, that's what our governments are there to do. It's why we elect them, and why they are of such expensive, gargantuan size.
Click here for full storyIn the month following the expansion by the New Zealand government of its emissions trading scheme and less than a fortnight before Australia’s national election, politicians, academics and business leaders will meet at the Australia-New Zealand Climate Change & Business Conference, the annual event for Australia and New Zealand’s carbon community.
Click here for full storyThe coalition has dismissed a key feature of Labor's new climate policy even before Prime Minister Julia Gillard formally unveils it in Brisbane later on Friday.
Click here for full storyAustralia’s first female Prime Minister Julia Gillard has promised investments of up to A$1bn ($892m) over ten years to promote the use of renewable energy sources. The promise is on condition that she is re-elected after the national vote on 21 August, when she faces opposition leader Tony Abbott.
Click here for full storyThe US ambassador to Australia has spoken of the need to resist delay on action on climate change - and the benefits of a carbon price - as the issue heats up on the Australian election campaign.
Click here for full storyKEVIN Rudd is in line for a plum job as a United Nations climate change adviser. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is considering a dedicated role for the dumped former prime minister as a top-level adviser, according to a diplomatic source with direct knowledge of the plan.
Click here for full storyThe government of Victoria, Australia announced plans to introduce a feed-in tariff (FIT) to boost its electricity supply from large scale-solar power to 5% by 2020.
Click here for full storyEnvironment Protection Minister Peter Garrett says the opposition's plan to axe climate change programs is "scandalous".
Click here for full storyGlobalData’s new report “Europe Renewable Energy Policy Handbook 2010” provides an in-depth analysis of the renewable policy initiatives in the European Union (EU) and the key countries in terms of strength of policy implementation.
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