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Carbon price uncertainty erodes business investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... eroded confidence in the long-term pricing signal, Petersen said. "Once the price was introduced through the Clean Energy Future package, businesses actually started the process of implementing the transition to the cleaner economy," he said. "But the ...

WWF: ETS repeal to reduce renewable energy, increase prices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... forthcoming cap on greenhouse gas emissions from the Climate Change Authority (CCA). As stipulated under the Clean Energy Future Act, from 2015, there will be an absolute limit on emissions from the country's most emissions-intensive industries. The ...

Government drafts legislation to bring forward ETS timeline

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... not be in place by the time the auctions are due to commence in February/March 2014. As stipulated under the Clean Energy Future Act, from 2015, there will be an absolute limit on emissions from the country's most emissions-intensive industries. The ...

Report: majority of businesses prefer floating carbon price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... does give a cap on pollution and it helps to manage/insure that targets are actually met." Under the current Clean Energy Future legislation, Australia's carbon pricing mechanism will be a fixed price of $23/tonne of CO2 emissions generated by liable ...

CEFC evaluating potential project commitments ahead of July

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... September, the opposition Coalition has pledged to shut down the CEFC and repeal most of the Gillard government's Clean Energy Future legislation, including the carbon pricing mechanism. But Yates notes that both Coalition and Labor agree that Australia ...

Companies advised to manage carbon price future uncertainty

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... and long-term investments that hinge on the ongoing price of carbon and other measures in the government's Clean Energy Future legislation. The Liberal-National Coalition, which is currently favoured to win the September election based on polling by ...

Businesses addressing climate change as strategic risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... and current polling favourite to become prime minister, has sworn a "blood oath" to repeal the government's Clean Energy Future package. Meanwhile in the US, while states such as California have implemented carbon emissions trading systems, the federal ...

Oliver Yates named CEO of Clean Energy Finance Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... energy efficiency and low emissions technologies. It was funded with AU$10bn and announced as part of the Clean Energy Future package to encourage private investment, help overcome capital market barriers to commercialising clean energy technologies ...

Fewer ASX companies see carbon price as a business risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... what it really means. I think that's a really interesting highlight of the report this year." Australia's Clean Energy Future legislation commenced from July of this year with a three-year fixed price on carbon of AU$23/tonne of carbon emissions, transitioning ...

Ernst & Young: go beyond carbon price implementation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... according to a new Ernst & Young report. Many businesses have implemented the processes to comply with the Clean Energy Future legislation, but many of those businesses have not gone far enough to optimise their strategy under the carbon pricing mechanism ...