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Clean Energy Finance Corporation turns 10

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... investment and help overcome capital market barriers to commercialising clean energy technologies. The CEFC survived the 2014 repeal of most of the rest of the Clean Energy Future legislation, despite former Prime Minister swearing a "blood oath" to ...

Government launches review of Safeguard Mechanism

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... era," said Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) climate lead (Australia) Harriet Kater. "Ever since the repeal of the Gillard government's carbon price, heavy carbon emitters in Australia have essentially been unregulated," Kater said. ...

Climate change is changing the outlook for energy utilities

KIRSTY MACKAY-FISHER  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
Australia's electricity sector is the nation's single largest source of greenhouse gas pollution, accounting for about a third of our total greenhouse gas emissions. Extreme weather events related to climate change such as prolonged drought, bushfires ...

Climate change high on agenda for Oliver Yates parliamentary bid

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... When the Coalition government led by then-Prime Minister Tony Abbot was elected in 2013, the CEFC Act was targeted for repeal as part of the unwinding of the previous Labor government's Clean Energy Future legislative package. The legislation to repeal ...

Oliver Yates to step down as Clean Energy Finance Corporation CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... When the Coalition government led by then-Prime Minister Tony Abbot was elected in 2013, the CEFC Act was targeted for repeal as part of the unwinding of the previous Labor government's Clean Energy Future legislative package. The legislation to repeal ...

Government launches new Clean Energy Innovation Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... renewable energy projects. The previous coalition government led by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott had attempted to repeal the CEFC, but the repeal legislation was rejected by the Senate. Environment Minister Greg Hunt this week outlined the new plan ...

Assessing likely process, impacts of first ERF auction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... activities. The expectation is that... a lot of them if not all of them will participate in the auction because with the repeal of the carbon price the government is now the only buyer of the credits, and all these project owners have invested into these ...

Combet calls for return of carbon pricing policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... sponsored by La Trobe Financial and the Fund Executives Association Ltd (FEAL), Combet said that the Abbot government's repeal of the carbon pricing mechanism and the passage of the Direct Action Plan is a higher cost approach to reducing greenhouse ...

Direct Action Plan, Emissions Reduction Fund approved

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... safeguard mechanism, according to Norton Rose Fulbright. Elisa de Wit, partner, Norton Rose Fulbright Three months after the repeal of the previous Labor government's carbon pricing mechanism, the Abbott government passed its Direct Action Plan (DAP) ...

Catholic Super makes case for global climate policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... statement detailed proposals for governments regarding climate policies. Pegan noted that Australia's domestic agenda, the repeal of the carbon pricing mechanism and the uncertainty around the structure and future of the Renewable Energy Target (RET) ...