The National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) has been going for about five years but the Federal Government hasn't extended its funding and so from June it's expected to be wound up.
There's been no commitment to extend it or help it continue co-ordinating those projects. And more than 100 researchers will be affected nationally.
The.
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Better Place, the battery swapping network for electric cars, is winding down its Australian and North American operations. However, commentators from the Fifth Estate say the reasons are not so bad.
Read Fifth Estate's perspective on the story (as at 12 February 2013) here.
Some speculate that the.
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Volunteers nationwide will take part in the annual Clean up Australia Day event on Sunday March 3, 2013.
And businesses can get in on the action too with a specially tailored program for business.
Details are available here: http://www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au/about/resource-centre/media
Business Clean Up Day - Tuesday 26 February.
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Story by Graham Readfearn in The Guardian:
Australian coal and gas is being shipped and burned around Asia at record rates – but at what cost to the climate?
Australia just loves to share, regardless of whether or not the world might universally benefit from what it's got to give.
There's been Kylie Minogue, a certain beer that.
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The Carbon Market Institute, ClimateWorks Australia, Seed Advisory, Climate Mundial and Baker & McKenzie invite you to the launch of Carbon Decision Making and Risk Management: A Guide for Business.
The Guide is designed to cut a clear path through what can seem a daunting and confusing area of carbon pricing legislation. It provides businesses impacted.
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By Sophie Vorrath in RenewEconomy on 20 February 2013
Yesterday we reported that Westpac had committed $6 billion in funding for clean technology and environmental services lending, as part of its newly launched five-year, $8 billion 2017 sustainability strategy.
Since then, RenewEconomy emailed Emma Herd – Westpac’s executive director of emissions and environment – to ask what.
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The Westpac Group has launched its 2017 sustainability strategy aimed at addressing the most pressing issues in society and the environment today.
Three areas specifically targeted include:
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- Demographic and cultural change
- Economic solutions for environmental challenges
- Identifying new avenues of wealth creation
Last week signaled a shift in the involvement of the health and medical community in Australia's unhealthy dependence on fossil fuels. Health leaders met at a national Roundtable in Canberra in early February 2013. They resolved to engage more directly with energy policy in this country, to see that the local and global implications of.
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Lighting contributes approximately 15 to 25 % to business energy use and operating costs. The ever-increasing energy prices certainly have helped to highlight the need for businesses to reduce their costs of lighting. Energy use associated with lighting systems can be reduced by up to 82% if energy efficient lighting practices are adopted. Efficient lighting.
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NABERS (the National Australian Building Energy Rating System) has announced the launch of their comprehensive new guide to help tenants take control of the office energy use on November 2012. The NABERS energy.