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Target changes help wind farms first
by Carbon Extra editor and journalist Deborah Nesbitt
Geothermal energy projects were unlikely to benefit as much as wind farms from the restructure of the Fed Govt’s renewable energy target (RET), says a major player in Aust’s renewables market.
Greens press for ANAO investigation
The Aust Greens say they are not satisfied with probes of the Fed Govt’s green loans scheme unveiled by environment minister Peter Garrett and will persist in demanding a special Aust National Audit Office investigation.
Australia power plants face $19 bln funding headache
* CO2 price uncertainty overshadows generators’ financing
* Funding future cloudy for big brown-coal generators – Fitch
* Sector faces huge investment costs to meet low-CO2 goals
Australia’s “Top End” too dry to become food bowl
The dream of turning Australia’s tropical north into a major food bowl to replace drought-stricken southern farmlands and feed a future Asia has been shattered by a new report released on Monday.
Online fraudsters steal EU carbon permits
* Phishing action was international, CO2 trading unaffected
* Six German companies had permits stolen
* EU Commission uninvolved, investigations at state level
Research in brief: Deutsche Bank says post-Copenhagen glass is half full
What do you think? Is the glass half full, half empty, or did someone knock it over and shatter it in the mad rush out of Copenhagen?
A summary of some of the key points in a research report by Deutsche Bank.
$150 million forest carbon market in the balance -report
* Forest carbon market, on verge of boom, eyeing regulation
* Market worth $21 million in H1 2009, $37 million in 2008 -report
* 21 million tonnes of CO2 traded representing 2 million hectares of forests
* North America forests most traded, Australia’s most valuable
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