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At the auction, 25 new optional delivery ERF contracts, nominally valued at $131 million, were awarded and over 76 per cent of the volume offered at auction was accepted. “We expect very few ACCUs under optional contracts to be delivered to the Commonwealth with most being sold to private buyers at higher prices available in […]

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Taxing corporations and consumers for the amount of carbon emissions they generate can be a great way to deal with climate change – so say many leading politicians, economists and environmental activists. Yet those same taxes also generate controversy wherever they’re adopted or proposed, even causing political leaders to lose elections. The researchers’ findings are […]

As part of the Emission Reduction Fund Act 2011, farmers, businesses and industries can earn Australian carbon credit units by establishing and rehabilitating ecosystems such as mangroves, salt marshes, seagrass and melaleuca forests that sequester carbon. “As part of this research project, I developed a calculator that landowners will use to input information about their […]

Yet as nations began wrapping up the difficult talks at the UN Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26 in Glasgow, false solutions, such as net-zero offsets and carbon markets ended up on the agenda. Essentially, it means commitments from nations or companies to end the burning of fossil fuels, and the abandonment of carbon […]

The Centre will build its decentralised marketplace on the energy-efficient Tezos blockchain because it operates sustainably and allows third parties to verify all transactions, in line with the Centre’s vision to support a sustainable future through technology. Pressure is mounting from governments and the public to rapidly roll out a global programme of well-executed nature-based […]

Given that Australia’s carbon budget has been largely ‘spent’ over recent years, an effective target that meets our international obligations to the Paris Agreement has become urgent. Scope 3 emissions are not emitted by the company directly, but associated with activities such as purchased materials, and with products once they have been sold. The system […]