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, …
Japanese health officials reported four confirmed cases and Tawian two cases of the A/H1N1 virus stemming from overseas flights, while Australia reported its first case but said the victim has recovered and is no longer contagious. China, meanwhile, reported its first suspected case on the mainland, involving a Chinese man …
- A planned new U.N. climate pact is shaping up to be a mildly tougher version of the existing Kyoto Protocol rather than a bold treaty to save what U.S. President Barack Obama has called a "planet in peril." "There's not a lot of ambition around," said Jennifer Morgan, of …
Wine connoisseurs who turned their noses up at screwtop caps replacing corks now have a new innovative to sniff at -- plastic wine bottles designed to resemble glass but with a 29 percent smaller carbon footprint. Australian wine maker Foster's is going green by bottling two of its Wolf Blass …
Australian winemaker Wolf Blass has claimed that selling wine in plastic bottles, instead of glass bottles, would reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Wolf Blass on Tuesday launched its Green Label, offering a dry white and a cabernet shiraz in plastic PET bottles. The company claimed that the plastic bottles were aimed …
Australia will delay the introduction of its proposed emissions trading scheme by one year until mid-2011, bowing to industry demands for more relief amid a recession. Canberra
Australia has given UN climate talks a boost by saying it could toughen emissions targets by 2020, something developing countries want from richer nations as the world tries to seal a broader climate pact. But the government also bowed to industry demands as it announced on Monday a delay to …
Australia's government has postponed its proposal to tax polluting industries until 2011, a delay of one year because of the economic slowdown and concerns the measure would hurt business, the prime minister said Monday. In a bid for support from the opposition Greens party, however, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said …
The Australian government delayed on Monday its much-vaunted carbon-emissions trading plan by a year, bowing to industry demands for more relief in a recession while opening the door to an even deeper long-term reduction. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, lacking the political backing to implement the world
Six mountain climbers were killed in an avalanche near the ski resort of Soelden in the Austrian Alps at the weekend, regional police said Sunday. Witnesses spotted the snowslide in glacier-dotted highlands Saturday and alerted alpine rescuers but they could not reach the scene by helicopter until Sunday due to …
It is a move that may draw flak or resistance, but when you look at the bigger picture, a ban on plastic bags and levying a tax on their use will do our surroundings a world of good.
The Gorgon project off the coast of Western Australia, one of the world's largest gas developments, passed a milestone yesterday when an environmental regulator gave conditional approval to the site's expansion. The decision by Australia's Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) paves the way for Chevron, the US oil group that is …
Underscoring the significance of individual measures that served as the first line of defence against any influenza virus, speakers at a discussion on swine flu said that though the virus seemed to be getting less virulent with time, there was a dire need to create awareness about it and take …
U.S.-hosted climate talks with the world's biggest greenhouse gas polluters concluded on Tuesday with signs of progress but sizable differences as nations work toward a deal this year to fight global warming. President Barack Obama called the Major Economies Forum to relaunch a process that began under his predecessor, George …
Energy-intensive industries could be offered exemptions by Australia's government on its 20 percent renewable energy target as financial tumult saps support for its climate change policies, a report said on Wednesday. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd would ask state leaders to sign off on further concessions for big electricity users including …
The REDD Forests Tasmania Project is located within the Australian Midlands Region in the state of Tasmania. This is one of the most complex bioregions in Tasmania. The region has a large diversity of native vegetation which is related to climatic gradients operating at a regional and local scale and …
The United States hopes to take the reins of international efforts to battle global warming next week with a meeting of major economies aimed at facilitating a UN pact to cut greenhouse gas emissions. President Barack Obama, a Democrat who took office in January, called the meeting last month to …
In a vicious cycle made worse by humans, scientists now believe fires spur climate change, which in turn makes blazes bigger, more frequent and more damaging to the environment. Climate experts have known that a warmer world would spawn more fires, but in research published on Thursday in the journal …
Greenhouse gas emissions from industrialized nations rose by nearly one percent in 2007, led by strong gains in the United States, official data showed. Carbon emissions from countries signed up to the Kyoto Protocol climate pact edged up by 0.1 percent in 2007, mainly due to rises in Japan and …
Australia will provide A$1.6 million to Bangladesh to support the on-going emergency operation of United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to address the impact of high food prices on the country's poorest people. "I am pleased to announce this contribution for WFP's emergency operation and hope this will help the …
