Welcome to the October – November market overview from carbonjobs. The goal of our flyer is to highlight a number of key articles and/or reports that we felt were worth revisiting. Numerous members of our specialist network have expressed an inability to stay up to speed with the latest technical, commercial and political movements within our evolving marketplace and hopefully our bi-monthly flyers will contribute in some small way to complementing your existing market knowledge.
clean energy future update
The carbonjobs team celebrated with clients and job seekers alike on Tuesday 8th November with the passing of the Clean Energy Future package by the Senate. Whilst plenty of hard graft occurred right across the industry in recent years, the real effort begins now as members of our existing and expanding professional network strive to adjust to the challenges encompassed within this new and exciting business environment.
water cooler thoughts
- $23.00 is the price of carbon emissions per tonne from 1st July, 2012
- $10.10 is anticipated to be the average weekly assistance for households
- this assistance will first be delivered to pensioners, allowees, Family Tax Benefit and other eligible recipients through a one-off, tax-exempt, lump sum Clean Energy Advance in May or June 2012
- $9.90 is anticipated to be the extra weekly costs for the average household
- $18,200 is the new tax-free threshold from July 2012
featured articles | web-links
Carbon Market Institute (CMI): Australia’s Clean Energy Legislative Package: A Guide for Business
CMI has teamed up with Baker & McKenzie to provide Australian businesses with an in-depth examination of the Government’s carbon pricing mechanism. “The Carbon Price Mechanism (Scheme) and accompanying legislation establishes a carbon price by way of an emissions trading scheme similar to that in Europe and New Zealand designed to provide price signals to incentivise new behaviours and encourage the adoption and consumption of low carbon energy alternatives. The Scheme imposes obligations on industry to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the surrender of tradeable permits and undertake projects that generate carbon credits. It is not a “carbon tax” which is simply a fixed impost on emissions.”
Graziers bank their carbon credits
“Tasmanian graziers Peter Downie and Roderic O’Connor were comfortably ahead of the politicians in Canberra in voting for carbon trading. The two major landowners were holders of VCUs (verified carbon credit units) earned for preserving native forests, well before the 10 October House of Representatives vote moved the nation towards a new Carbon Age.”
International Stakeholder Engagement Standard AA1000SES (2011)
The AA1000 Stakeholder Engagement Standard provides a basis for designing, implementing, evaluating and assuring the quality of stakeholder engagement. It has been designed to be multi-purpose, not just for sustainable development, and can be used by businesses, civil society, public bodies and multi-stakeholder networks and partnerships.
The 2011 Global Cleantech 100
Collated by combining proprietary Cleantech Group research data, with over 6,000 nominations and specific input from an expert panel, these companies represent the most innovative and promising ideas in cleantech – the companies that are best positioned to solve tomorrow’s clean technology challenges.
GRI and ISO 26000: How to use the GRI Guidelines in conjunction with ISO 26000 (2011)
“The first ever ISO Guidance Standard on Social Responsibility, ISO 26000, emphasizes the value of public reporting on social responsibility performance to internal and external stakeholders, such as employees, local communities, investors and regulators. This represents an important new level of international attention to the issue of reporting, and is aligned with GRI’s vision that disclosure on economic, environmental, social and governance performance becomes as commonplace and comparable as financial reporting.”
How solar can save Gulf oil exports
The carbonjobs team enjoyed reading Giles Parkinson’s piece from Climate Spectator which examines the notion that parts of the Middle East are fast becoming serious players in renewable energy generation investment. Their motivations may be two-fold of course! “Something rather unexpected is happening in the Middle East. The oil-rich Gulf states, which have earned trillions of dollars in the past few decades exporting crude to the east and west, find they can no longer afford to consume their own oil. They are consuming ever increasing amounts at home, at a huge cost to exports, and are being forced to turn to renewables as a cheaper source of energy.”
RECENT | FUTURE ACTIVITY – roles being worked on throughout Australia at present are largely in respect of clients revisiting somewhat “dusty” job specs that previously failed to gain internal sign-off. Expectations are that the more reactive NGERS and EEO based compliance and reporting opportunities will be replaced by more proactive consultancy based roles undertaken by both in-house and external consultants. The creation of marginal abatement cost curves, investigating supply chain carbon constraints, devising carbon offsetting strategies and better educating senior management and board members as to their newly mandated fiduciary duties are all key elements of opportunities that we are beginning to see gain final sign-off approval….exciting times ahead!
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market overview
October – November, 2011
Welcome to the October – November market overview from carbonjobs. The goal of our flyer is to highlight a number of key articles and/or reports that we felt were worth revisiting. Numerous members of our specialist network have expressed an inability to stay up to speed with the latest technical, commercial and political movements within our evolving marketplace and hopefully our bi-monthly flyers will contribute in some small way to complementing your existing market knowledge.
clean energy future update
The carbonjobs team celebrated with clients and job seekers alike on Tuesday 8th November with the passing of the Clean Energy Future package by the Senate. Whilst plenty of hard graft occurred right across the industry in recent years, the real effort begins now as members of our existing and expanding professional network strive to adjust to the challenges encompassed within this new and exciting business environment.
water cooler thoughts
- $23.00 is the price of carbon emissions per tonne from 1st July, 2012 – $10.10 is anticipated to be the average weekly assistance for households – this assistance will first be delivered to pensioners, allowees, Family Tax Benefit and other eligible recipients through a one-off, tax-exempt, lump sum Clean Energy Advance in May or June 2012 – $9.90 is anticipated to be the extra weekly costs for the average household – $18,200 is the new tax-free threshold from July 2012
featured articles | web-links
Carbon Market Institute (CMI): Australia’s Clean Energy Legislative Package: A Guide for Business CMI has teamed up with Baker & McKenzie to provide Australian businesses with an in-depth examination of the Government’s carbon pricing mechanism. “The Carbon Price Mechanism (Scheme) and accompanying legislation establishes a carbon price by way of an emissions trading scheme similar to that in Europe and New Zealand designed to provide price signals to incentivise new behaviours and encourage the adoption and consumption of low carbon energy alternatives. The Scheme imposes obligations on industry to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the surrender of tradeable permits and undertake projects that generate carbon credits. It is not a “carbon tax” which is simply a fixed impost on emissions.”
Graziers bank their carbon credits “Tasmanian graziers Peter Downie and Roderic O’Connor were comfortably ahead of the politicians in Canberra in voting for carbon trading. The two major landowners were holders of VCUs (verified carbon credit units) earned for preserving native forests, well before the 10 October House of Representatives vote moved the nation towards a new Carbon Age.”
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carbonjobs takes great care not to distribute unnecessary market information to clients and job seekers alike. Should you no longer wish to
receive bi-monthly market updates from the carbonjobs team, please reply to this email to advise accordingly.
International Stakeholder Engagement Standard AA1000SES (2011) The AA1000 Stakeholder Engagement Standard provides a basis for designing, implementing, evaluating and assuring the quality of stakeholder engagement. It has been designed to be multi-purpose, not just for sustainable development, and can be used by businesses, civil society, public bodies and multi-stakeholder networks and partnerships.
The 2011 Global Cleantech 100 Collated by combining proprietary Cleantech Group research data, with over 6,000 nominations and specific input from an expert panel, these companies represent the most innovative and promising ideas in cleantech – the companies that are best positioned to solve tomorrow’s clean technology challenges.
GRI and ISO 26000: How to use the GRI Guidelines in conjunction with ISO 26000 (2011) “The first ever ISO Guidance Standard on Social Responsibility, ISO 26000, emphasizes the value of public reporting on social responsibility performance to internal and external stakeholders, such as employees, local communities, investors and regulators. This represents an important new level of international attention to the issue of reporting, and is aligned with GRI’s vision that disclosure on economic, environmental, social and governance performance becomes as commonplace and comparable as financial reporting.”
How solar can save Gulf oil exports The carbonjobs team enjoyed reading Giles Parkinson’s piece from Climate Spectator which examines the notion that parts of the Middle East are fast becoming serious players in renewable energy generation investment. Their motivations may be two-fold of course! “Something rather unexpected is happening in the Middle East. The oil-rich Gulf states, which have earned trillions of dollars in the past few decades exporting crude to the east and west, find they can no longer afford to consume their own oil. They are consuming ever increasing amounts at home, at a huge cost to exports, and are being forced to turn to renewables as a cheaper source of energy.”
RECENT | FUTURE ACTIVITY – roles being worked on throughout Australia at present are largely in respect of clients revisiting somewhat “dusty” job specs that previously failed to gain internal sign-off. Expectations are that the more reactive NGERS and EEO based compliance and reporting opportunities will be replaced by more proactive consultancy based roles undertaken by both in-house and external consultants. The creation of marginal abatement cost curves, investigating supply chain carbon constraints, devising carbon offsetting strategies and better educating senior management and board members as to their newly mandated fiduciary duties are all key elements of opportunities that we are beginning to see gain final sign-off approval….exciting times ahead!
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