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Carbon Farming Initiative offers landholders revenue opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... Farming Initiative (CFI) will provide opportunities for landholders to generate tradeable carbon credits from carbon abatement and sequestration activities. But while landholders across Australian industrial sectors potentially stand to offset their ...

Carbon price will capture mines' fugitive emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... has also allocated AUS$70m over six years in the form of grants on a co-contribution basis as part of the "Coal Mining Abatement Technology Support Package" for abatement technologies, including those from fugitive emissions in the coal sector," the ...

Carbon price package could yield greater than expected reductions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... package shows it could reduce 133m tonnes of carbon emissions by 2020, more than double Treasury's modelling of domestic abatement through the carbon price alone, said ClimateWorks Australia Executive Director, Anna Skarbek. The reduction in carbon pollution ...

PC: carbon price a more efficient means of reducing emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... for constructing or installing sources of renewable energy," the report said. "All of these measures either encourage abatement or discourage emissions of greenhouse gases." However, the report acknowledged there is no carbon price equivalent that can ...

Majority of ASX100 report on ESG issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... indigenous employment at roughly 10% of the workforce at Prominent Hill, but then highlighted that in April 2010, a pollution abatement notice was issued by the Northern Territory authorities regarding a possible breach of waste management and pollution ...