Welcome to the final edition of Carbon Insights for 2009, a year that has proved to be a very busy one for carbon markets and climate change law.
Recently the Copenhagen Conference concluded, leaving the world with an Accord as an early Christmas present and some confusion about what it really means. Was it what we really wanted, or the climate equivalent of a pair of socks and some hankies?
We also round up some recent developments in Australia:
- new parts of the greenhouse and energy audit framework
- further details of assistance to emissions-intensive, trade-exposed industries under the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme and the increased Renewable Energy Target; and
- a framework to foster network development for remote generation clusters.
The Copenhagen Accord: What actually happened - and how?
By Graeme Dennis and Brendan
Bateman.
Fresh off the plane from Copenhagen, Graeme Dennis and Brendan
Bateman explain what was achieved (and how) at the 15th Conference
of Parties under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change, and what this means for Australia.
Transparency at home: The greenhouse and energy audit framework
By Natalie Hewitt
Greenhouse and energy audits are a key element of the compliance
framework under the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act.
Natalie Hewitt rounds up the latest developments.
Government assistance for emission-intensive, trade-exposed industries
By Simon Bowden.
Simon Bowden discusses the latest developments in the Australian
Government's plans to assist emissions-intensive, trade-exposed
(EITE) industries.
MCE gives green light to developing network connections for wind and geothermal generation clusters
By Naveena Rajaretnam and Graeme
Dennis.
A new legal framework for connecting Scale Efficient Network
Extensions is coming, as Naveena Rajaretnam and Graeme Dennis
report.
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