This white paper examines the current challenges for clean energy infrastructure and identifies solutions that industrial clusters, transport and logistics industries, and the wider clean energy value chain can jointly explore in order to accelerate its deployment. Thirteen new industrial clusters from Australia, Brazil, Colombia, India, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, …
Australia's Greens called for a quick parliamentary vote to defeat government plans for carbon trading on Monday, a move that could make the issue a trigger for an early general election. The carbon-trade plan is one of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's key reforms and a central plank of Australia's efforts …
Australia lifted protection levels on Friday for the world's largest surviving marsupial carnivore, the Tasmanian devil, listing the animal as endangered due to a deadly facial tumour outbreak. Devils, the size of a small dog and made famous by the fierce Looney Tunes cartoon character known as "Taz", have been …
Australia's forestry firms are poised for major growth from emissions trading plans that could give the sector a multi-million dollar boost when it becomes the first to kick off a nationwide scheme to cut carbon pollution. Big polluters such as power generators and smelters are keen to hedge future emissions …
Australia's government defended its scheme to cut carbon emissions on Friday, amid mining industry warnings that its carbon trading plan would cost 23,000 resource sector jobs as the country battles recession. The powerful Minerals Council of Australia, representing miners, said carbon emissions trading would see 23,510 mining jobs cut after …
Thousands more people in Australia's flood-hit east were told to leave their homes on Saturday as gale-force winds lashed the coast and emergency services said up to 20,000 people had been cut off. One man has died and dozens have been rescued from rising waters after days of rain and …
BHP Billiton moved closer to developing Australia's second-biggest un-mined uranium deposit by applying for environmental permits, but warned it might mothball or sell a big nickel refinery as that market languishes. While uranium demand is being driven by rising requirements for nuclear power to replace fossil fuels as nations seek …
An experience sharing meeting on Australian origin hybrid Sweet Jumbo grass farming for farmers was held in remote char village of Bozra Diarkhata under Chilmari upazila in Kurigram on Sunday. Rangpur-Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS) organised the meeting under the Char Livelihood Programme (CLP) to encourage the char people in farming …
There is good news about carbon capture and storage (CCS), the technology that is intended to slow global warming by capturing industrial carbon dioxide emissions and injecting them underground. Last week, US energy secretary Steven Chu outlined plans for using some $2.4 billion in economic stimulus money to research aspects …
Bangladesh Carbon - a CDM based Carbon Trading service of Rahimafrooz Renewable Energy Ltd along with Carbon Planet, Australia, joined hands together to bring to the public and private sector of Bangladesh for clean, green and renewable initiatives, projects and programs that are eligible for globally acceptable Carbon Emission Reduction …
The European Union urged Australia on Monday to make deeper cuts to greenhouse gas emissions than it has committed to so far, saying the success of climate change talks this year depended on tougher action from rich nations. Australia has committed to a 5 percent cut in carbon emissions by …
Australia plans to build the world's largest solar power station with an output of 1000 megawatts in a A$1.4 billion (US$1.05 billion) investment, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Sunday. The plant would have three times the generating capacity of the current biggest solar-powered electricity plant, which is in California, …
Famous for its delicious apples, Himachal Pradesh itself is now flooded with imported varieties of the fruit. Chinese and Australian apples, known for their natural sweetness, colour and succulence, are selling well in the state, often referred to as India
Australia's government introduced carbon trade laws into parliament yesterday. But Kevin Rudd, the prime minister, faces a battle to get them passed into law and warned that he might need an early election if his reforms were blocked. The carbon-trade plan is a central plank of Australia's efforts to fight …
The world faces disputes over the seabed from the South China Sea to the North Pole at a May 13 UN deadline for claims meant as a milestone towards the final fixing of maritime boundaries. Most coastal states have to define their continental shelves, areas of shallower water offshore, by …
Australia's government will spend A$4.5 billion (US$3.4 billion) in partnership with private investors to build up to eight commercial power stations testing clean coal and solar technologies, Treasurer Wayne Swan said on Tuesday. In one of few budget surprises, Swan said the leftist government would help fund between two and …
The first case of swine flu in China was confirmed Monday as the epidemic continued moving around the world, with the World Health Organization reporting about 4,700 laboratory-confirmed cases in 30 countries. Communication with a Chinese man, being treated for the new H1N1 strain of flu, was broadcast at a …
Australia's government shook off on Friday coal industry warnings that 10,000 jobs would be lost and 16 coal mines forced to close unless a planned national carbon emissions trading scheme was dramatically overhauled. The centre-left government's exclusion of coal mining from compensation measures promised to the biggest polluting firms exposed …
