PM Gillard told to slow down on climate
LABOR'S closest business adviser, Heather Ridout, has warned Julia Gillard to slow down as the PM prepares to rush out a climate change policy.
Click here for full storyThe jaws of death are opening wider for Australia, ensuring maximum economic damage when they finally snap shut, crocodile-style.
Instead of making a smooth, early transition to a clean economy we are doubling up our coal bet, and the latest manifestation - coal-to-liquids - is a perfect example.
Backed into a corner, the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, showed her true colours on climate on
Lateline on Wednesday night, and guess what? They look to be the same - if not browner - than Kevin Rudd's.
Click here for full storyUS President Barack Obama wants to expand by $5bn a successful renewable energy manufacturing incentive programme that he says could leverage an additional $12bn in private investment and create some 130,000 jobs.With fears of a weakening economic recovery mounting, Obama pointed to the success of his enormous economic stimulus effort, particularly in clean energy.
Click here for full storyThe scientists at the centre of the “climategate” scandal were yesterday cleared by an independent inquiry of falsifying data to support their contention that global warming was real and man-made.
Click here for full storyA member of the Reserve Bank board says Prime Minister Julia Gillard's decision to rule out a price on carbon for some years is ill advised.
Click here for full storyDespite ruling out any kind of carbon price before 2012, Julia Gillard says she's still the safest bet for the planet.
Click here for full storyA carbon economist at the University College of London in Adelaide says using gas, rather than a carbon price, will reduce Australia's emissions.
Click here for full storyGermany is the second country in installed wind power, and has several large wind turbines manufacturers worldwide, such as Enercon, Nordex and Siemens.
Click here for full storyIt's no secret that many renewable energy businesses are facing tough economic times, and toil hard to make even a slim profit. In response, Craig Shields, editor of 2GreenEnergy.com has recently published an 11-page report called "The Tough Realities of Renewable Energy Businesses - Why Investors and Entrepreneurs are Struggling to Profit in Clean Energy,"
Click here for full storyThe effect that greenhouse gases and the depletion of fossil fuels have had on the environment has pushed low-carbon economies to the front of energy discussions. Developing renewable energy industries will create new jobs, but the transition will also eliminate old jobs. Whether there will be a net gain of jobs has been unclear.
Click here for full story"Green" investment funds typically aim to avoid investing in polluters, but a new fund aims to attack the enemy from within.
Click here for full storyAustralia formally launched a programme on Wednesday that allows companies or their products to be certified carbon-neutral in a bid to boost their corporate image and fight climate change. The voluntary carbon neutral programme will be part of a new National Carbon Offset Standard (NCOS) launched on July 1, the government said in a statement.
Click here for full storyCarbon pricing is central to any national strategy to cut emissions. If the government is re-elected, can it deliver a carbon price for Australia?
Click here for full storyAn experimental solar-powered aircraft launched on Wednesday has landed safely in Switzerland after successfully flying through the night.
Click here for full storyThe Renewable Energy Snapshots 2010 study by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) reports that with regards to the new capacity constructed in 2009, (27.5 GW), among the renewable sources, wind power accounted for 10.2 GW out of the 27.5 GW built, which represents 38 percent of the total.
Click here for full storyegislation authored by State Senator Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) to require private and public utilities to obtain 33% of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020 passed the Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee today.
Click here for full storyRenewable energy from solar panels and small wind turbines offers a viable alternative to diesel generators in these remote off-grid sites, and a new report from Pike Research forecasts that renewable energy will power 4.5% of the world's mobile base stations by 2014, up from just 0.11% in 2010.
Click here for full storyCatalist-listed Renewable Energy Asia (REA) will form joint-venture firms with a subsidiary of state-owned power producer China Datang Corporation.
Click here for full storyAgriculture Under Secretary for Rural Development Dallas Tonsager today announced the selection of eight recipients for grants to implement renewable energy and energy efficiency measures in Mississippi. Tonsager made the announcement during a visit to the state.
Click here for full storyHigh costs of investing and high risks are the main obstacles to fulfil the demand of solar energy. However, the current situation of power energy particularly in Asian region needs alternative sources, said president Asian Development Bank (ADB) Haruhiko Kuroda while speaking at First Asia Solar Energy Forum held in Manila.
Click here for full storyIn an apparently absurd decision, the central power regulator has made it mandatory for all power utilities to purchase 6% green power, even though the country doesn’t have enough electricity generated through renewable energy sources.
Click here for full storyA regional center tasked with helping to develop renewable energy potential for West Africa opened Tuesday in Praia, the capital of Cape Verde.
Click here for full storyChina and India are among the ‘first choice’ countries that will benefit from solar energy developments under a $9bn financial aid initiated and supported by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a senior official says. Many countries in the Asia-Pacific region are geographically well-positioned to harness energy from the sun, but affordable financing mechanisms need to be made available to allow the area to tap into the energy resource
Click here for full storyCan renewable energy significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions? More importantly, can it be done at a reasonable cost, within the boundaries of the politically feasible?
Click here for full storyThe European Commission's Joint Research Centre released its annual "Renewable Energy Snapshots" report this week, and found that 62 percent of all new electricity generation installed in 2009 in the 27 EU member countries was from renewable sources. This represented an increase from 2008, when 57 percent of new electricity was renewable.
Click here for full storyGermany has become the latest country to signal that it could decarbonise its electricity network with the release of a major new report arguing that it could switch to an entirely renewable energy supply by 2050. The study from Germany's Federal Environment Agency, the Umweltbundesamt, could phase out fossil fuel power plants and replace them with existing renewable energy technologies such as wind turbines and solar panels. "A complete conversion to renewable energy by 2050 is possible from a technical and ecological point of view," said Jochen Flasbarth, president of the Federal Environment Agency, told reporters yesterday. "It's a very realistic target based on technology that already exists - it's not a pie-in-the-sky prediction."
Click here for full storyThe federal government appears to be throwing open its doors to lobbyists and special interest groups in a last minute attempt to cobble together a credible climate change policy to take to a snap election, and to prevent the embarrassing collapse of two nascent industries just as it goes to the polls.
Government officials have been calling for ideas from specialists in the banking community, renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors, as well as NGOs and various industry groups, as it seeks to put forward a package of “direct action” measures to reduce emissions.
Click here for full storyOVER the past two weeks, many have said that climate change policies wiped out two prime ministers, John Howard and Kevin Rudd, and loused up two opposition leaders, Brendan Nelson and Malcolm Turnbull. What are the prospects for Julia Gillard?
Gillard, who reportedly pushed Rudd into shelving the emissions trading scheme, has said that her goal is to put a price on carbon. What exactly does that mean? Is this carbon price fixed, floating, or both? Labor's backdown on the mining tax suggests we may never have the answer. Gillard's government showed the world that it can be bashed up by aggressive companies that can run expensive advertising campaigns and get the media onside. Vested interests will be taking notes for future reference in the inevitable battle over a carbon price and emissions trading.
Click here for full storyWoodside Petroleum Ltd has undertaken informal discussions with renewable energy company Tidal Power over the possibility of using its technology to provide power for the oil producer's James Point LNG project, the Australian Financial Review reports.
Tidal Energy is the operator of a stalled $400 million tidal river energy project in the Kimberley region, which it says could supply a small portion of the proposed LNG operation's total electricity requirements.
Click here for full storyUPS has expanded its carbon neutral shipping program to 35 countries and territories across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Millions more UPS customers now have the option of paying a small fee to calculate and offset the carbon emissions associated with their shipments.
Click here for full storyCreating green jobs is all the rage. About a year ago Kevin Rudd promised to create 50,000 of them. Tony Abbott has plans for a standing army of 15,000 green workers who could be deployed across the country. And every environmental group or renewable energy lobby group wants to tell us how many ''green-collar jobs'' could be generated if only we'd do as they say.
Click here for full storyRenewable Energy Corp. ASA, the Norwegian maker of solar energy components, advanced after a Chinese province set a power purchase price for solar plants and the U.S. announced loan guarantees for the industry.
Click here for full storyThe Saudi cabinet agreed on Monday to sign a nuclear cooperation accord with France, which could open the way for French help in developing nuclear power in the oil-rich kingdom.
Click here for full storySpanish renewable energy shares rose Monday after the government and part of the industry announced Friday an agreement on the new rules that will be applied in coming years to wind- and solar thermal-generated energy technologies.
Click here for full storyIn addition to the recent $20 million the government gave to support the development of offshore wind energy, the Obama Administration is making another hefty donation to support additional efforts in renewable energy, but this time, it's for solar power.
Click here for full storyChina, the world’s biggest polluter, needs to pick up the pace of increasing the nation’s capacity to produce power from renewable energy sources for 2020 targets to be met, a government official said.
Click here for full storyCLEAR Solar found customer numbers rose after a raft of incentives such as premium feed-in tariffs and renewable energy certificates.
Click here for full storyPresident Barack Obama, under pressure to stimulate job growth, said yesterday that two solar energy companies will get nearly $2bn (£1.35bn) in US loan guarantees to create as many as 5,000 green jobs.
Click here for full storyISRAELI electricity company BrightSource has challenged the Federal Government to replicate US President Barack Obama's offer overnight to guarantee loans to two solar energy projects.
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