The Federal Government has announced that applicants can apply for grants ranging from $50,000 to $5 million, from the $75 million Climate Ready program. The grants will support Australian businesses developing new products, processes and services to tackle climate change.
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MINISTER CELEBRATES NATIONAL SCHOOLS TREE DAY
Environment Minister, Peter Garrett and Planet Ark Founder, John Dee today joined students at Malabar Primary School to celebrate Schools Tree Day. Mr Garrett said the day provided students with an important [...]
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Tougher targets needed for Australia’s renewables
Environmental experts say the Australia Government’s renewable energy targets aren’t aggressive enough to impact on global warming.The Population Health Congress in Brisbane has heard climate change will eventually expose Australians to greater heat extremes, weather events and changes in infectious…
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Govt releases paper on renewable energy target
The Federal Government has released a discussion paper that outlines two ways it could phase in its renewable energy target by 2020. The Commonwealth wants renewable sources to provide 20 per cent of the country’s energy by that…
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ACT residents can produce electricity
ACT residents can now harness their own electricity and sell it back to the grid, under new laws passed by the ACT Legislative Assembly. Under the Electricity Feed-in (Renewable Energy Premium) Bill 2008, Canberrans can install photovoltaic (solar) cells or other renewable sources, produce their own…
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Solar Bonus Scheme environmental PR stunt
The Bligh Government s solar rebate scheme serves to highlight their focus on the PR of climate change, rather than creating policy with substance. The State Opposition has criticised the Governments flawed scheme, which involves merely 1000 households state-wide and only pays the 44 cents…
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59 new Green Corps projects announced
The Minister for Employment Participation, Brendan OConnor, today announced 59 Green Corps projects across Australia, providing new work experience opportunities for young people and also helping to improve their local…
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Adelaide’s desal plant: catastrophe for marine ecosystems?
Environmentalists fear that Adelaide’s proposed billion dollar desalination plant in the St Vincent Gulf will have catastrophic effects on the local marine ecosystem. The plant is expected to discharge 50 billion litres of saline water each year, and this is predicted to kill the sea grasses that stabilise the marine environment. [...]
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Petrol out of Emissions Trading
Within days of the release of Prof Ross Garnaut’s report on Climate Change and it’s impacts on Australia, the Federal Government has signalled that it will be rejecting some areas of the reports’ recommendations into how Australia should deal with the issue. Key areas that so far are being knocked back [...]
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Govt gives $46m to help farmers reduce emissions
The Federal Government has tripled earlier allocated funding to help farmers reduce greenhouse gases and adapt to climate change.
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