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Carbon price to be double the world’s
Tue, 8/11/11 – 8:12 | Posted by Tim Strube

Marcus Priest with Luke Forrestal, Michael Hobbs writes in The Australian Financial Review “Labor’s pact with the Greens is set to lock Australian business into paying up to double the global carbon price following sharp …

Breakthrough technology enables 3D mapping of rainforests, tree by tree
Wed, 26/10/11 – 9:34 | Posted by Tim Strube

Rhett A. Butler reports in Mongabay.com “High above the Amazon rainforest in Peru, a team of scientists and technicians is conducting an ambitious experiment: a biological survey of a never-before-explored tract of remote and inaccessible …

Climate Justice Debate Ahead of COP17
Wed, 26/10/11 – 9:33 | Posted by Tim Strube

All Africa reports “The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) chief negotiator for the G77, Bernaditas Muller, said “Durban will determine whether we have a fund or not. Durban will determine the type …

Claims fly on carbon credits
Wed, 26/10/11 – 9:32 | Posted by Tim Strube

Leslie White notes in the Weekly Times Now “Farmers’ incomes from the Carbon Farming Initiative would be gutted if the Opposition abolished the price on carbon. That’s according to the Federal Government and the Greens.”
To read …

Green markets
Wed, 26/10/11 – 9:31 | Posted by Tim Strube

Giles Parkinson and Sophie Vorrath write in the Climate Spectator “Environmental markets and services company CO2 Group says it has generated $11 million in revenue from its new Carbon Banc trading division since it was …

Pricing in Abbott’s carbon extremism
Wed, 19/10/11 – 12:25 | Posted by Tim Strube

Giles Parkinson writes in The Climate Spectator “How, exactly, do you assess the impact of the Opposition threats to rescind the carbon pricing legislation?
With each day that passes, the conservative Coalition in Australia more and …

Julia Gillard accuses the opposition of killing green jobs
Wed, 19/10/11 – 12:22 | Posted by Tim Strube

The Australian writes “Julia Gillard says the Coalition is setting out to wreck green jobs as the opposition compares her $10 billion Clean Energy Fund to the failed state-run merchant bank Tricontinental.”
To read the full …

Farming permits to stay, opposition says
Wed, 19/10/11 – 12:21 | Posted by Tim Strube

The Australian Financial Review reports “The opposition has clarified its warning to business not to buy future carbon permits, saying yesterday its advice did not apply to those generated through changes to agricultural and land …

Gillard’s brave carbon future
Thu, 13/10/11 – 9:16 | Posted by Tim Strube

Marcus Priest in the Australian Financial Review today has a piece about the passage of the carbon price scheme in the Lower House yesterday about implications for the Gillard government. He says: “The Gillard government …

Will forests sink carbon profits?
Thu, 13/10/11 – 9:09 | Posted by Tim Strube

Brendon Lau writes in The Australian Financial Review: “Some of Australia’s biggest carbon emitters are expected to take up contracts on forestry projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars once the carbon tax comes into …