| Press releases by Environment Business Australia |
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Business body makes climate change plea
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| Environment Business Australia (EBA) has written an open letter to both the Australian labor Party and Liberal Party, calling for bipartisan support of climate change. |
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Clean energy target only 1st step-September 2007
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| Environment Business Australia calls for the Federal government to commit to binding targets for greenhouse gas emission cuts. |
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Business group calls for Government to set greenhouse targets
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| Environment Business Australia today called for the Federal Government to commit to binding targets for greenhouse gas emission cuts. In Its report, targets for our future, EBA recommends cuts of 60% by 2050, with an interium target by 2020. |
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NPI would deliver GHG reporting in half the time and under half the cost
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| A study by KPMG concludes a national greenhouse gas reporting scheme could be implemented much more quickly and much more cheaply through the National Pollutant Inventory (NPI) than through new fed legislation. |
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| Huge opportunities ahead in energy efficiency, zero emissions energy, and carbon offsets - so start now on emissions trading - says Environment Business Australia. |
| March 2007 |
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| Employment and financial opportunity in carbon trading and ‘Cleantech’ era. |
| March 2007 |
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| Agricultural offsets in a carbon trading world |
| February 2007 |
| As the search for solutions to climate change speeds up there are significant commercial and financial opportunities with tremendous employment opportunities for Australians says the peak organisation for the environment and sustainability industry. |
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| Global Renewables and Lend Lease win multi-billion dollar contract to tackle waste and greenhouse gas emissions |
| February 2007 |
| The green credentials of Australian industry were given a significant boost with the announcement that a major waste management contract in the UK would focus on recycling materials and embodied energy, trapping and destroying greenhouse gases, and producing a natural fertiliser from putrescible waste. |
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| Carbon emissions trading - bold decisions made now will pay dividends |
| Canberra, 1 March 2005 |
| The development of a State and Territory based carbon emissions trading system which was announced in a joint communiqué on 30 March by State and Territory Ministers is a welcome stimulus to the urgent need to combat climate change. |
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| Climate change - our biggest threat |
| Canberra, 25 January 2005 |
| Climate change is the single biggest threat facing the world - and it is already affecting many countries. Action to intensify steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions either by abatement or mitigation is urgently needed and the International Taskforce on Climate has released their far-reaching report "Meeting the Climate Challenge". |
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| Action beyond Kyoto |
| January 2005 |
| The Kyoto Protocol which has now come into force internationally is a wake up call and an initial stepping stone - a very basic framework for action. But to avoid dangerous climate change the world needs to do much more in order to avoid an average temperature rise of 2 degrees Centigrade compared with the beginning of the industrial age. |
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| The stone age did not end because of a shortage of stone Australia's coal age will not end because of a shortage of coal |
| 7 September 2004 |
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| Clean energy and renewable energy sources must be the key to our vision for the future |
| 7 August 2004 |
| EBA interim submission on the Energy White Paper to Prime Minister and Members of Cabinet; the CoAG Energy Review Secretariat; and the Senate Inquiry into the Energy White Paper |
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