With the Australian election result still largely in the balance, the carbonjobs team thought it may be useful to highlight some initial articles examining what the potential benefits could be to the currently stalled carbon/climate change legislation.
Interestingly enough, the three lead articles in today’s Climate Spectator (see below), suggest that the apparent lack of result [...]

On the 16th August, the Australian Academy of Science (the Academy) released their latest publication/guide, The Science of Climate Change: Questions and Answers (link), in the hope of better educating all levels of the Australian community about a range of past, present and future climate change issues.
As outlined within the Academy’s website, “…this publication aims [...]

The carbonjobs’ team has noticed a definite increase in the depth and quality of reporting in the last few months around critical climate change, sustainability, carbon management and renewable energy developments (or lack thereof) which is promising given the significant drop off witnessed in such reporting earlier this year.  The links to one of the [...]

The carbonjobs’ team wished to flag an excellent interview between the Climate Spectator’s Giles Parkinson and Pavan Suhkdev – link – who argues that the world needs new policies and new business thinking to balance its environmental books, and needs to measure natural capital.
As outlined further on their web site – link – the “Economics [...]

In an effort to keen job seekers abreast of some of the latest developments in education and training available in today’s marketplace, we are pleased to confirm that a long-term client of carbonjobs, RPS Group, has recently been engaged by the Planning Institute of Australia to develop and nationally deliver a climate change unit [...]

As outlined in greater detail on the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency website – link – the National Carbon Offset Standard (NCOS) was launched on 1st July 2010.
NCOS “…provides guidance on what constitutes a genuine, additional voluntary offset.  It sets minimum requirements for the verification and retirement of voluntary carbon [...]

By way of a follow-up to our earlier energy efficiency and built environment blogs, the carbonjobs team thought that we would highlight a recent article featured in The Australian on-line which considers the contributions to be made by the building sector in reducing their associated domestic and international carbon footprint.
The article – link – was [...]

As detailed further on the GBCA website – link – from 1st July 2010, building owners will be required to provide up-to-date energy efficiency information when they sell or lease office space with a net lettable area (NLA) of more than 2,000 square metres.
The new federal government scheme will require building owners to:

Disclose [...]

After a series of negotiations with the opposition and the Greens, the government has finally gained passage of amendments to the Renewable Energy Target, now known as eRET, through the Australian Senate – government press release link.
Basically, the government intends, from January 2011, to split the scheme into two parts:

LRET (large-scale RET) which will cover [...]

Should you have missed the announcement this week, the below link to Beyond Zero Emissions’ latest report may be of interest which was released with the aid of Liberal Senator Judith Troeth, who crossed the floor to vote for the ETS last year, at Parliament House on Tuesday 22nd June. The report, entitled “Australian [...]