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, …
Australian mining firms, hit by high fuel costs and falling commodity prices, could soon swap their diesel generators for 24-hour, solar-power systems, the head of a private renewable power firm said on Thursday. Mining firms are also worried about an emissions trading scheme set to begin in Australia in 2010, …
Torrential rains killed a woman and troops were deployed to help thousands of people after storms and flash floods hit Australia's Queensland state overnight, just days after cyclonic weather battered the tropical region. The woman was swept away in her four-wheel-drive as storms dumped 250 millimeters (9.8 inches) of rain …
The British government sold 4 million permits in the country's first auction of European Union carbon emissions allowances but held that revenues would not necessarily be used to fight climate change. The permits, called EU Allowances (EUAs), were sold on Wednesday to industry at 16.15 euros a tonne, raising 64.6 …
BHP Billiton Ltd says it wants to develop one of Australia's largest untapped uranium deposits, after the state government where the deposit is located lifted a ban on mining the nuclear power feedstock. The 10-kilometre-long (6 miles) Yeelirrie deposit, located about 1,000 km north of Perth in west Australia, is …
TOKYO, Nov 17, 2008 (AFP) - Japan's whaling fleet set sail Monday, environmentalists said, apparently on an annual Antarctic hunt likely to provoke fresh friction with anti-whaling countries such as Australia. Greenpeace said its activists saw the whalers depart from a port in western Hiroshima prefecture waved off by their …
Cyclone-like storms ripped across the southeast corner of Australia's tropical state Queensland, killing one man, destroying houses and leaving more than 230,000 homes and businesses without power, authorities said on Monday. The storms cut a path of destruction on Sunday night from the state capital Brisbane to the tourist havens …
Australia's influential states have written to the national government to raise concerns about a planned carbon emissions trading scheme amid warnings it may drive big polluting firms offshore or out of business. The premiers of South Australia and Tasmania states wrote to centre-left Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to press for …
Tens of thousands of Australians took part in mass protests around the country on Saturday to call for tough government action on climate change, organisers said. The demonstrations were held as Australia prepares to set national greenhouse gas emissions targets, expected around the end of this month. Environmentalists accuse industry …
A cheap way to clean up radioactive waste a common ingredient of sunscreens, when mixed with another ingredient of soaps, can clean up wastewater containing radioactive material. Upon heating, titanium dioxide and caustic soda form a ceramic. This, a group of Australian and Chinese researchers found, could absorb radioactive material. …
An Australian report shows aboriginal children are being removed from their families at a rate similar to the 1920s. The revelation came in a report submitted to the state of Queensland. It showed that 669 aboriginal children in Queensland were in state care in 2007. Over 700 aboriginal children in …
The Australian High Commission announced funding of its first project under its Direct Aid Programme 2008-09 to support Bandarban hill district families. The Australian high commissioner, Douglas Foskett, handed over a cheque for Tk 7 lakh to Green Hill, a local NGO from Rangamati. Moung Thowai Chiang, executive director of …
Australia's government is unlikely to send ships to monitor Japanese whaling in the Antarctic this season, lawmakers said on Tuesday, after clashes with activists last year led to a diplomatic protest from Tokyo. Canberra last year sent a customs and fisheries icebreaker to shadow anti-whaling activists and the Japanese fleet, …
Sri Lanka National Livestock Development Board has planned to import 500 cows from Australia next year. These cows are the first batch of the 15,000 cows needed to be imported to achieve the target of increasing the country's milk production by 50%. The imported cows are to be given to …
On the occasion of tenth anniversary of its foundation, Bangladesh Environment Network (BEN) held an all-day-long event at the University of Western Sydney (Parramatta Campus) on 1st November 2008 in Sydney. It was participated by Australians and Non- Resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) in Australia. There were three sessions of the event, …
Protesters forced the evacuation of an Australian power station on Friday, attempting to chain themselves to a coal conveyor-belt and ratchet up pressure on an industry blamed for half the nation's greenhouse gas emissions. The incident, the latest in a series of environmental protests against Australia's coal-fired power stations and …
Melbourne: Researchers in Australia have built a hydrogen-powered racing car using a modified internal combustion motorcycle engine, that they claim demonstrates the possibilities of the gas as a renewable fuel of the future. A team at RMIT University in collaboration with the Fachhochschule Ingolstadt in Germany has designed the car …
The Australian High Commission has extended its support for a project aimed at creating awareness and education on Leptosporsis (commonly known as rat fever) in the Galle district. The project will be carried out by the Saviya Development Foundation and will target children of 20 schools, farmers and community based …
The Australian government Monday unveiled a multibillion-dollar plan for the country's auto industry in an effort to boost its international competitiveness and help auto makers adjust to declining global demand for fuel-guzzling vehicles. Under the so-called New Car Plan for a Greener Future, the government will provide net new funding …
Australia's Greens want the national government to commit to strong greenhouse emission cuts and end land clearing in return for crucial parliamentary support for carbon trading, the party said on Friday. Greens Senator Christine Milne said that, while her party backed carbon trade to help curb emissions blamed for global …
This Regulation is the Pesticides Amendment (Notification of Proposed Use) Regulation 2008. The object of this Regulation is to amend the Pesticides Regulation 1995: to require a pest management technician to give notice of the proposed use of a pesticide before using a pesticide on land adjacent to certain sensitive …
