1. Calls for carbon price louden as Australia finds a new government
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... cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and a 90 per cent cut by 2050.   Through the Clean Energy Council, 19 energy companies ahead of Tuesday’s independents’ announcement called for a...

2. Carbon management becoming a strategic priority - report
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...pelled to the forefront of business across multiple sectors through a number of market drivers, including energy costs, the growing cost of carbon, brand reputation, energy supply risks, employee expe...

3. AGL partners with Lend Lease on solar push
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AGL Energy (ASX: AGK) and Lend Lease (ASX: LLC) unit Bovis Lend Lease announced late August a partnership to deliver First Solar’s thin film solar photovoltaic panels to residential households. 

4. AGL partners with Lend Lease on solar push
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AGL Energy (ASX: AGK) and Lend Lease (ASX: LLC) unit Bovis Lend Lease announced late August a partnership to deliver First Solar’s thin film solar photovoltaic to residential households.   AGL’

5. Asian Development Bank issues bond to finance clean energy projects
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said it plans to issue its first bond to finance clean energy projects in Asia. The development bank said it would match the amount raised by the bond, which is expect

6. Asian Development Bank issues bond to finance clean energy projects
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said it plans to issue its first bond to finance clean energy projects in Asia. The development bank said it would match the amount raised by the bond, which is expect

7. Conference hears call for hydrogen push
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...n the early 1970s, RMIT associate professor John Andrews said.   “Hydrogen produced from renewable energy sources has a critical role to play globally and in Australia as a replacement transpor...

8. Conference hears call for hydrogen push
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...n the early 1970s, RMIT associate professor John Andrews said.   “Hydrogen produced from renewable energy sources has a critical role to play globally and in Australia as a replacement transpor...

9. WA forcibly acquires Aboriginal land for Woodside’s LNG hub
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WA Premier Colin Barnett has decided to forcibly acquire land at James Price Point, 60 km north of Broome to house the Woodside Petroleum (ASX: WPL) – Browse joint venture liquefied natural gas hub, a

10. AMP Capital appoints Adam Kirkman as new ESG head
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... investment analysis and sustainability reporting.     Prior to this he was program manager energy & climate change at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. He also...

11. Labor, Coalition vie for low carbon credibility
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Both Labor and the Coalition squared up to each other on energy efficiency and policies to reduce Australia’s carbon emissions ahead of the 21 August election. Through its Low Carbon Communities progr

12. WA broadcaster WAG Ltd buys biochar company
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... PacPyro’s slow pyrolysis technology – Agrichar – that converts low value, nonfood biomass into renewable energy and biochar to meet growing demand for renewable energy and carbon abatement.   ...

13. WA broadcaster WAG Ltd buys biochar company
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... PacPyro’s slow pyrolysis technology – Agrichar – that converts low value, nonfood biomass into renewable energy and biochar to meet growing demand for renewable energy and carbon abatement.   ...

14. China acts on emissions reductions in void of global agreement
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Driven by their energy security concerns and a desire to maintain economic competitiveness, China is taking rapid action to reduce emissions, said Robert Hansor of Lloyds Register Quality Assurance.

15. China acts on emissions reductions in void of global agreement
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Driven by their energy security concerns and a desire to maintain economic competitiveness, China is taking rapid action to reduce emissions, said Robert Hansor of Lloyds Register Quality Assurance.

16. CBD Energy wins Thai solar contract; reports positive results
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CBD Energy’s (ASX: CBD) eco-Kinetics unit has won a $300 million contract to build a solar power plant in Thailand’s Chonburi province near the eastern seaboard. The company also announced profit

17. CBD Energy wins solar power plant contract in Thailand
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CBD Energy’s (ASX: CBD) eco-Kinetics unit has won a $300 million contract to build a solar power plant in Thailand’s Chonburi province near the eastern seaboard.   The size of the installation,

18. Renewables to get $40m government boost
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New emerging renewable energy technologies such as wave and geothermal will receive support under a plan announced by federal energy minister Martin Ferguson ahead of the election.   The $

19. Renewables to get $40m government boost
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New emerging renewable energy technologies such as wave and geothermal will receive support under a plan announced by federal energy minister Martin Ferguson ahead of the election.   The $

20. Richard Hames: It’s time for some new energy
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...stracted by critical issues such as global warming and climate change, which has resulted in the issue of energy being somewhat ignored.   All three are linked. “We need to become more...

21. Fitting the green building blocks together
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...problems stem from a lack of clarity from both federal and state governments,” Jones Lang LaSalle head of energy and sustainability services Anita Mitchell tells a conference in May. “The regulat...

22. Mandatory energy efficiency disclosure offers investment opportunities
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...s will be able to identify if the cost of efficient buildings is preferable to those of similar, but less energy efficient, sites.There is much talk at present about the mandatory disclosure legislati...

23. Generation Y demands proactive super
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...be injected into Australia’s superannuation industry, and with products guaranteed to invest in renewable energy and other sustainable developments, super firms can secure socially conscious new custo...

24. Strategy shift set to swell revenue
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...st and biogas that can be used to power the process. The surplus can be exported to the grid as renewable energy. Subject to securing project finance from funding partner, Palisade Regional Infra...

25. Grassroots unite against greenhouse gases
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Community-based renewable energy sources matched to local demand creates many additional benefits, Ethical Investor learns at the north Coast Energy Forum.Communities across Australia are starting to

26. Harnessing all that energy
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... Goldsworthy says the company will start building the pilot plant by mid-2011. The Australian Solar Energy Society says that “if these plants and others like them rely on government capital, the...

27. More power to the energy savers
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Our investment thinking on sustainable buildings needs to be scaled up to solve the energy problem. Part of the decision for building owners and developers to opt for more sustainable choices is about

28. Doing the REIT thing
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...rookfield Multiplex committed to upgrading their entire Australian office portfolios to an average NABERS Energy rating of 4.5 by 2012 Green and sticky Greener buildings both attract prospectiv...

29. Future-proofing your investment
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...chools, public buildings and hospitals. Removing, replacing or downsizing inefficient equipment to reduce energy waste would deliver the most value. This was followed by retrofitting heating, ventilat...

30. AGL wins NSW sustainability awards
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AGL Energy (ASX: AGK) has been awarded two Green Globe Awards at the NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change Annual Green Globe Awards.   The energy retailer won the Business Sustainab

31. CAER announces world-first quality standard certification
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ESG researcher CAER (Corporate Analysis. Enhanced Responsibility) has become the first non-European organisation to achieve the Association of Independent Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility R

32. Australia’s electricity generation getting greener
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...han 70 per cent of total emissions.   “The report shows that the mandated targets for renewable energy are making a difference, with our electricity becoming less greenhouse intensive,” said...

33. UPDATE: Lend Lease launches solar business
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...former project director of 30 The Bond and The Gauge buildings – says the ‘20 per cent by 2020’ renewable energy target (RET) was a major driver of the deal.   “The conventional wisdom is tha...

34. UPDATE: Lend Lease launches solar business
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...former project director of 30 The Bond and The Gauge buildings – says the ‘20 per cent by 2020’ renewable energy target (RET) was a major driver of the deal.   “The conventional wisdom is tha...

35. Lend Lease launches solar business
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... Lease has established sales alliances with two as yet unnamed Australian corporations in the banking and energy sectors to provide direct access to over three million households.   The unit ...

36. Greens call for government funding boost to renewable energy
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The Australian Greens proposed Monday a set of funding measures to kick-start the renewable energy sector, including a proposed $5 billion of loan guarantees to support new power generation. Loa

37. Greens call for government funding boost to renewable energy
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The Australian Greens proposed Monday a set of funding measures to kick-start the renewable energy sector, including a proposed $5 billion of loan guarantees to support new power generation. Loan g

38. Global Q2 clean energy investment down 3.0 per cent yr-on-yr – report
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New investment in clean energy technologies, companies, and projects was 3.0 per cent lower than a year earlier at US$33.9 billion, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said. The quarterly total represented j

39. Global Q2 clean energy investment down 3.0 per cent yr-on-yr – report
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New investment in clean energy technologies, companies, and projects was 3.0 per cent lower than a year earlier at US$33.9 billion, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said. The quarterly total represented j

40. CBD completes one of Australia’s biggest solar commercial property projects
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CBD Energy (ASX:CBD) subsidiary eco-Kinetics has completed one of the biggest solar panel projects on an Australian commercial property by installing its equipment on a Local Government Super building

41. CBD completes one of Australia’s biggest solar commercial property projects
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CBD Energy (ASX:CBD) subsidiary eco-Kinetics has completed one of the biggest solar panel projects on an Australian commercial property by installing its equipment on a Local Government Super building

42. UPDATE: Environmentalists at odds with Ichthys gas field environmental assessment
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...jeopardy. Do we want oil washing up on the beaches of the Kimberley?”   The Federal Resource and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson is yet to release the findings of the Montara Commission of In...

43. Federal government puts Queensland CSG approvals on hold
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...t analysis be done on groundwater impacts and interactions between the gas fields of QGC, APLNG and Arrow Energy."   "I am concerned regarding the potential for widespread, irreversible, seri...

44. Beyond Zero Emissions' plan to cut emissions wins endorsements
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An ambitious plan to source Australia’s entire energy needs from renewable sources with existing commercialised technologies has won endorsement by senior scientists, former senior company directors a

45. Beyond Zero Emissions' plan to cut greenhouse gases wins endorsements
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An ambitious plan to source Australia’s entire energy needs from renewable sources with existing commercialised technologies has won broad endorsement.   The Zero Carbon Australia 2020 report l

46. Renewable new global electricity generation surpasses conventional sources - UNEP
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... the US and Europe for a second year in 2009, the United Nations Environment Program said.   Clean energy accounted for 60 per cent of new capacity in Europe, and more than half of new power ge...

47. Renewable new global electricity generation surpasses conventional sources - UNEP
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... the US and Europe for a second year in 2009, the United Nations Environment Program said.   Clean energy accounted for 60 per cent of new capacity in Europe, and more than half of new power ge...

48. Geodynamics shares rise as government funding flows, floodwaters recede
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Shares in geothermal energy developer Geodynamics (ASX: GDY), which earlier this month suffered a sharp decline after former managing director Gerry Grove-White quit, bounced back on news floodwaters

49. Geodynamics shares rise as government funding flows, floodwaters recede
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Shares in geothermal energy developer Geodynamics (ASX: GDY), which earlier this month suffered a sharp decline after former managing director Gerry Grove-White quit, bounced back on news floodwaters

50. NAB provides discounted green loans for Brisbane City Council’s green energy program
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... press release.   Brisbane City Council in partnership with the Queensland Government launched its energy reduction program, EzyGreen, providing residents with a range of energy saving opt...