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Trillion-dollar climate question
28 August 2010. Sydney Morning Herald.
Hopes surged this week that a swing to the Greens will result in meaningful action on climate change in the new Parliament. On the Climate Spectator website, Fiona Wain, the head of the Environment Business Australia think tank, urged the crossbenchers to grasp the "unprecedented opportunity in their hands - to help re-attract investment lost by the Rudd-Gillard deferral of putting a price on carbon". Wain made half a dozen useful recommendations, including: cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20 per cent by 2020; put a price on carbon via an ETS next year; invest revenue from the ETS in the low-carbon economy; More...

CarbonExpo 2010 Melbourne Australia 11-13 October

EBA is co-host of Australasia’s premier Trade Fair & Carbon Conference for emissions intensive business and low-carbon economy product & service providers. Carbon Expo will be this year's best opportunity to network with key domestic and international carbon business players, and to develop strategies to minimise costs and maximise benefits associated with emissions reductions and carbon pricing.
www.carbonexpo.com.au

Wealth generation opportunities in tackling climate change
24 August 2010
Click here to view an EBA letter to Independents and Greens
The Green and Independent Members of Parliament hold an unprecedented opportunity in their hands - to deliver vision and strategy to Australian Government deliberations. If they are successful they will help re-attract investment lost by the Rudd/Gillard deferral of putting a price on carbon and starting an emissions trading scheme. The climate change action implications of this are very important, but we should not underestimate the opportunity ahead to shape this country's competitiveness in the new Green Economy where the USA, China, EU, UK, Japan, Korea, and to some extent India, are already jostling for leadership. More...