Emissions Trading
Coalition faces carbon blowout over land clearing
Peter Hannam The Coalition's Direct Action plan to cut carbon emissions may have a hole blown in its $3.2 billion budget by the actions of conservative colleagues in Queensland, the federal government and green...
Carbon price could fall after European vote
Tom Arup Labor has conceded it will revise revenue projections from its carbon scheme after a key vote to shore up the struggling European carbon market failed, triggering a price crash that will affect...
Price crash could tear a hole in future budgets
Tom Arup The government has conceded it will revise revenue projections from its carbon scheme.
Markets
EU efforts mount to save carbon market
Six environment and climate chiefs, including German Environment Minister Peter Altmaier and U.K. Energy and Climate Secretary Ed Davey, pressed European Union lawmakers to back a rescue plan for the...
Kyoto extension to limit carbon market access to some nations
The deal to extend pollution limits under the Kyoto Protocol restricts the ability of Japan, Russia, Canada and New Zealand to take advantage of carbon market mechanisms under the United Nations...
Obama officials join talks to curb airline emissions
A more than decade-long quest for a global plan to curb airline emissions is likely to pick up speed this week, with a meeting set for a new high-level team of officials, including two US government...
Climate talks factbox: major nations' positions
More than 190 countries are meeting in Doha, Qatar, from November 26 to December 7 to make progress on a new deal to fight climate change, due to be agreed by 2015 and come into force in 2020.
MPs skip climate meetings in Doha
Tom Arup For the first time in several years Australia will not be represented by a minister at a major round of international climate change negotiations, with Greg Combet set to miss talks in Doha starting...
EU fails to deliver on climate aid pledges
EU finance ministers fail to deliver firm promises of cash to help poor nations deal with climate change, threatening progress at international talks to tackle global warming later this month.
Methane leaking from coal seam gas field, testing shows
Ben Cubby Vast amounts of methane appear to be leaking undetected from Australia's biggest coal seam gas field, according to world-first research that undercuts claims by the gas industry.
Climate change on Obama' agenda: Combet
Peter Hannam The Australian government wasted little time sounding out Barack Obama's climate change policies.
Europe halts airline carbon curbs pending global talks
The European Union plans to freeze implementation of greenhouse gas curbs on flights into and out of the EU until September next year, while countries worldwide negotiate a global pact to cut...
Government may ease curbs on cheap Kyoto emission credits
The federal government appears open to the possibility of relaxing restrictions on the number of cheap Kyoto pollution permits Australian businesses can purchase to offset their carbon emissions.
Australia's carbon abatement imports target revealed
Australia will need to import about 100m tonnes of carbon abatement in 2020 to meet its greenhouse gas reduction targets, according to the first official emissions projections since the carbon tax...
Shunned US coal sends Europe's emissions higher
Shale gas has jolted traditional roles in the planet's climate drama, giving cleaner fuel to the United States, whose displaced coal has headed to Europe to pollute the old continent.
Britain turns back the clock as wood displaces coal
More than two centuries after coal power helped forge the world’s first industrial economy, Britain is going back to burning wood.
U-turn on $1b methanol expansion plan
David Wroe A CHEMICALS firm which announced last year it was shelving a $1 billion expansion because of the carbon price, bolstering Coalition claims the scheme would kill investment, now says it is pushing...
Firm revives chemical project
David Wroe Company pushes ahead with shelved $1 billion expansion after changes to the carbon scheme.
House to vote on ditching carbon tax floor price
The lower house will vote this morning on legislation that ditches the carbon floor price and links Australia’s emissions trading scheme to Europe.
RET reviewer models removal of target, carbon price
The authority reviewing the renewable energy target (RET) is looking at what would happen to electricity generators’ emissions if the target was scrapped and the carbon tax alone was left to drive...
