This is a ABC broadcast, where the author joins a discussion on global and Australian efforts to reduce carbon pollution.

If the current price of carbon emissions holds, the ERF would acquire 180 million tons of emissions reductions by 2020.

This analysis considers the likely timing scenarios for a full repeal of the CPM, with a consideration of other options.

The Bill providing for integration of Australia's carbon tax regime with international regimes has now become law.

The NSW Court of Appeal determined the risk was not self-evident to a lay person as one which required disclosure.

Given significant penalties for a failure to report, land owners and operators should review these Reporting Guidelines.

Climate policy has been a highly controversial topic in Australia over the last three election cycles.

A directive from the Abbott government to the CEFC not to invest in wind or solar energy has also been quietly dropped.

Comparable changes have simultaneously been made to the South-East Queensland Water (Distribution and Retail Restructuring) Act 2009.

Of significant interest to property developers will be the more prominent role to be performed by approved Auditors.

This target should give the renewable energy industry, and other key stakeholders, certainty in the industry's future.

We consider the environmental amongst other implications,.

The latest emissions figures show that ERF auctions are being used primarily by landowners for vegetation projects.

The Federal Government has released exposure drafts of the Carbon Price Mechanism repeal bills for public consultation.

Climate change action group Rising Tide failed in its attempt to curtail Macquarie Generation's emissions of CO2.

Agribusinesses should be considering carbon farming opportunities and ways to transition to low emission technologies.

If oceans and rivers are contaminated with PFAS, the fish and aquatic animals in those waterways could be contaminated.

The cornerstone of Australia's federal climate policy (as discussed in previous editions of The Climate Report) is known as the "Direct Action Plan," under which the federal government pays for emission reductions or abatements.

The Government has secured support to amend safeguard mechanism provisions to manage and reduce cardon emissions.

Dust diseases are lung illnesses such as asbestosis, silicosis or mesothelioma, caused by inhaling harmful dust particles.