Agricultural Emissions Can Be Cut 13% – At a Profit Today
A report completed for MAF dispels the convenient untruth that pastoral farmers have no cost-effective options to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
Over 13% of the nation’s agricultural emissions can …
Australia’s Indefensible Climate Change Targets
The Australian Government proposes an unconditional target of reducing 2000 year net emissions by 5%, and would make a 15% cut if other developed nations make similar commitments. These …
ETS: Bill to a Future Generation
Proposed changes to the emissions trading scheme (ETS) would result in 84% or more of the nation’s multi-billion dollar Kyoto liability being put on to future taxpayers. Today’s polluters …
A Climate For Protection Money
The plan to put a price on carbon emissions needs to change or it will require ordinary consumers to pay for protection of farmers’ capital gains and fail to …
ETS Rules Prejudge Level of Corporate Welfare Required
Eight of the companies set to qualify for corporate welfare under the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) are together likely to receive $1.4 billion or more over the next decade.
These …
Consumers Pay Over $1 Billion of Major Emitters’ Power Bills
Major industrial emitters are to receive well over a billion dollars in subsidies from ordinary consumers for power they buy over the next ten years.
Under the new rules proposed …
Corporate Welfare Under the ETS
This briefing provides indicative estimates of the subsidies that were to be payable to eight major industrial emitters under the proposed rules for the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) proposed …
The Coming Carbon Crunch
Some time next year, New Zealand’s international negotiators will have to settle on a new emissions reduction target – one to apply after the Kyoto Protocol’s first period ends …
ETS Change Puts Major Pressure on New Carbon Currency
The new carbon currency proposed under the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is likely to come under major pressure as a result of the two-year delay on charges to apply …
