Solar industry up in arms over 10-year payback limit
In the decade between 2010 and 2020, Australian homeowners are expected to invest more than $20 billion in rooftop solar installations. Some private forecasts suggest it could be as much as double...
View ArticleClimate authority gives green light for boom in big renewables
The Climate Change Authority says the 41,000GWh target for large-scale renewables should remain – paving the way for a massive build-out of wind farms, and eventually solar farms. But the CCA has...
View ArticleThe CCA’s RET decision could stifle commercial solar growth
The recommendation that the RET be left unchanged is good news, but a number of the CCA's other suggestions will dampen future solar growth.
View ArticleFraser fears Abbott at mercy of fossil fuel lobby on renewables
Climate Change Authority chairman Bernie Fraser said he fears Abbott government would be swayed by the fossil fuel lobby's attack on renewables, and dilute the LRET. He decries the short term nature of...
View ArticleCCA emissions review may come too late to embarrass Abbott
The Climate Change Authority's review on Australia's emissions targets may arrive too late to embarrass the Coalition's climate change policy before the election. That's a pity, because the Coalition...
View ArticleRenewables fear the worst as Tony Abbott targets clean energy
The clean energy industry plans a crisis meeting to discuss the future of renewables in as Tony Abbott leads the polls and calls on the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to cease work immediately. A...
View ArticleFinally, some light relief for the Renewable Energy Target
The draft final report of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report has just been sent to government. Australia's should read it. Carefully.
View ArticleFraser: Time to stop paying lip service to climate policies
CCA chairman Bernie Fraser says policy makers should stop paying "lip service" to 2C climate targets, and lamented cutting back renewable energy targets to suit sectoral interests. Fraser said the move...
View ArticleGraph of the Day: Major parties’ 2030 emissions targets compared
Confused about where Australia's major parties stand on 2030 emissions reductions? Check out this visual comparison against the recommendations of the CCA.
View ArticleBernie Fraser quits Climate Change Authority after difficulties with Hunt
The chairman of the Climate Change Authority, Bernie Fraser, has quit – apparently after a long period of bad relations with Environment Minister Greg Hunt.
View ArticleIgnored by government, shrunk by resignations – where now for Climate Change...
Bernie Fraser’s resignation as chairman of Australia’s Climate Change Authority has left many wondering what is left of it and what its future might be.
View ArticleHunt stacks Climate Change Authority with Coalition advisors and ex MPs
Coalition tried to kill the independent Climate Change Authority and failed. So, a day after complaining that the CCA board was "partisan", it has decided to stack the board with former Coalition...
View ArticleAustralia must quit coal by 2035 to meet emissions targets, says Climate...
Climate Institute says only way for Australia to meet Paris climate commitments is to replace coal power with renewables by 2035.
View ArticleClimate Change Authority cops out – just when we need it most
Gutted by Malclm Turnbull, its latest report a cop out, the Climate Change Authority has become yet another impediment to climate action in Australia.
View ArticleTamed CCA gives Coalition breathing space, but no path to Paris targets
A reconstituted Climate Change Authority has delivered its long-awaited, long-delayed report on Australia's climate policy options. And it looks remarkably like something that the Coalition could have...
View ArticleClimate Change Authority’s gamble on political pragmatism
Years of controversy over carbon pricing has both major parties scared of any policy seen to raise electricity prices. The CCA seems to have taken this political situation as a starting point.
View ArticleCCA dissenters slam “$100 turkey claims” as Coalition defends climate goals
Dissenting CCA members call for "proper" emissions target, coal closure, as Frydenberg reads from Abbott songbook.
View ArticleHamilton quits CCA over Coalition’s “unconscionable” push to coal
Climate Change Authority member Clive Hamilton quits over Coalition's "unconscionable" and "perverse" clean coal push.
View ArticleCoalition sets climate parameters, as two more quit key advisory body
Coalition publishes climate policy discussion paper amid CCA resignations, claims of right-wing, anti-science bias.
View ArticleERF review fails to douse doubts over Coalition key climate policy
CCA review of Coalition's Emissions Reduction Fund fuels concerns the scheme is an expensive, inefficient and risky way to cut carbon.
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