The Wildlife Preservation Society of Australia is calling for nominations for the Community Wildlife Conservation Award that will be awarded to a community conservation group that is making a major contribution to wildlife preservation in Australia. To celebrate our Centenary in 2009, the cash prize for the Community Wildlife Conservation Award has been increased to $5,000.Nominations close on 19 December.
30 October 2008
COASTCARE: Coastcare Week 2008 (Dec 1-7)
It's hard to believe that it's nearly December, which means Coastcare Week 2008 (Dec 1-7) is just around the corner! Now in its 13th year, Coastcare Week recognises the hard work and many hours that volunteers have done to preserve and protect our fragile coastline.
This year, Coastcare Week is being used to launch 'Life on the Edge', a major fundraising and awareness campaign that will run over the entire summer.
WASTE MGMT: National Plastic Bag Campaign 'Are You Ready?' website
The South Australian government has announced it plans to ban single-use polyetheylene plastic bags from 4 May 2009. Other states in Australia are working towards a phase-out or reduction in plastic bag use.
This move to ban plastic check-out bags presents a simple question for retailers and communities. Are You Ready?
Whether you’re a retailer, a community or an individual, the Are You Ready? website will help you prepare for your own phase-out or ban. The site is designed to inspire and inform you about the actions that you can take today. It also provides practical assistance for sourcing items like paper bags and reusable bags.
FOOD SUSTAINABILITY: Sustainable Table - serving up healthy food choices
Sustainable Table celebrates local sustainable food, educates consumers on food-related issues and works to build community through food.
FOOD SUSTAINABILITY: Queensland 'Grow Local!' campaign
The new Queensland Conservation 'Grow Local' campaign is about getting people involved in growing food locally in back yards and community gardens. It’s about understanding where our food comes from and supporting local farmers. Grow Local will help to reduce food miles and cut greenhouse emissions while reconnecting people with their local landscape to ensure Queensland has healthy, active communities.
CLIMATE: Latest issue of CO2 News (29 October 2008)
The 29 October 2008 issue of CO2 news includes articles on:
- Financial crisis should not halt efforts to tackle climate change: scientists
- Renewable energy funding program details released
- Call to change tax system to encourage renewable energy investment
- Online resource maps renewable energy sources Australia-wide
- New group to focus on climate change research
- Coming conferences and events
CLIMATE: "Sea-level rise threat to coast"
The Sydney Morning Herald
29 October 2008
SYDNEY'S iconic beaches, coastal houses, commercial property and roads will be threatened by rising sea levels by 2050, while the city's temperature is expected to rise by at least 2 degrees, a new scientific study, launched by the Premier, Nathan Rees, reveals...
Read the full article here.
CLIMATE: "City is 'one big lab' for green ideas"
The Canberra Times
29 October 2008
Canberra has the intellectual capital on tap to become Australia's most innovative city in meeting the local and global challenges of climate change, the head of a new research institute says.
The chief executive of the Australian National University's new cross-disciplinary Climate Change Institute, Professor Will Steffen, has an inspired, exhilarating vision of the Canberra region becoming ''one big laboratory'' leading a climate change revolution.
''We can be the city that takes a bold lead in innovation. We can be a focus for experimenting with new energy sources, better infrastructure and greener public transport...
Read the full article here.
WATER: "Opposition backs stormwater capture plan"
ABC News
27 October 2008
The Victorian Opposition has endorsed a proposal to bolster Melbourne's water supply by capturing stormwater.
A parliamentary committee inquiry is considering the submission, which says the method could lessen the city's flood risk and reduce pollution of waterways from urban run-off...
Read the full article here.
WATER: "Water commission ready to tap recycled waste for residents of southeast Queensland"
The Australian
28 October 2008
A TOTAL of 2.6 million residents of southeast Queensland will become the first Australians to drink their own waste, as about 60 megalitres of recycled sewage a day will soon be pumped into their water supply.
The Queensland Water Commission said the recycling process would go through seven levels of purification, ensuring the water was safe to drink for the people of Brisbane, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast and other centres in the region.
Opposition to the move has been surprisingly muted, given the furore that surrounded a 2006 referendum in Toowoomba, when 62 per cent of residents voted no to recycled water...
Read the full article here.
RIVER MGMT, TOXIC WASTE: "Heavy metals contaminate Yarra fish"
The Age
27 October 2008
Melbourne's Yarra River has unkindly been described as an "upside-down" river for its muddy, brown colour, but it seems the river is also a nasty chemical cocktail.
Fish in the Yarra have arsenic levels up to five times the safe level for human consumption and some are so badly contaminated that they could cause kidney or nerve damage in humans, according to a study by the Herald Sun newspaper...
Read the full article here.
URBANISATION: "Dire warnings for world's megacities"
The Australian
26 October 2008
PREDICTIONS that cities would die are proving to be, like reports of Mark Twain's death, grossly exaggerated.
Big cities are getting bigger. More than half of the people on the planet now live in cities, a watershed reached for the first time this year.
Some 500 million more people will be urbanised over the next five years, at the rate of 30,000 a day.
There will be 100 new million-plus cities by 2025.
These were among the facts and projections reported by a range of international experts this week at the World Metropolis congress in Sydney...
Read the full article here.
BIODIVERSITY: "Perth’s native birds face extinction as bush is ripped out for housing"
The West Australian
27 October 2008
More than 80 per cent of Perth’s most prominent native birds face extinction if land clearing continues at current rates, according to alarming new research that puts the spotlight on the State’s planning practices...
Read the full article here.
26 October 2008
WETLANDS: WetlandCare Art Competition closing soon
The WetlandCare National Art Competition 2009 is still open for submissions, with entries closing on Friday, December 5.
The competition is offering a fantastic range of prizes, including the $1250 Sydney Metropolitan CMA Open Art prize, and the NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change Open prizes. There is no entry fee.
There are categories for children and adults, as well as a primary school prize for wetland posters.
The themes of the competition are Upstream-Downstream; wetlands connect us all or Wetlands generally. The winners will be publicly announced at an exhibition of the winning works on World Wetlands Day, 2 February 2009, and the works will then be displayed in regional exhibitions and in an online exhibition on the WetlandCare Australia website.
Artists and photographers of all ages are encouraged to take advantage of this exciting opportunity to link art and environment.
Entry forms can be downloaded at www.wetlandcare.com.au or are available by contacting WetlandCare Australia on 02 6681 6169.
CLIMATE, SUSTAINABILITY: New CSIRO Report - Growing the green collar economy
This new CSIRO report investigates the skills, innovation and workforce dimensions of the transition to a more environmentally sustainable society, with a particular focus on the challenges involved in achieving deep cuts in greenhouse emissions.
CLIMATE: "World's major cities pledge action on climate change"
ABC News
24 October 2008
Leaders of 40 of the world's major cities pledged action to fight climate change, taking measures ranging from promoting solar energy to tracking genetically modified food.
Warning that crowded urban areas were especially susceptible to the planet's rising temperatures, city officials said they needed to take the lead in adapting to climate change...
Read the full article here.
BIODIVERSITY: "Collingwood Park estate threat to koalas"
The Courier Mail
21 October 2008
A KOALA habitat is set to be bulldozed to make way for a multimillion-dollar housing estate despite Government promises to protect the species.
The controversial Collingwood Park development in Ipswich has been given the green light by councillors, sparking fears it will cut a koala population in half.
The project has angered the Australian Koala Foundation, which has accused Premier Anna Bligh of misleading the public...
Read the full article here.
RIVER MGMT: "Loving the river...again"
Sydney Morning Herald
15 October 2008
Years ago it was decided to tame the Cooks River's unruly banks with concrete, but now the reverse is happening, writes Jennie Curtin.
Poor old Cooks River - such a sadly chequered history: polluted, degraded and clogged, then concreted over, fenced in and denuded of its natural vegetation.
No wonder many Sydneysiders think the concrete channel that meanders through parts of the inner west is nothing more than a stormwater drain.
But hope is in sight. Plans are afoot to return parts of the river to its former glory, or to a state as glorious as is possible after more than a century of abuse...
Read the full article here.
FOOD SUSTAINABILITY: "Future farms over our heads"
Sydney Morning Herald
12 October 2008
AUSTRALIAN cities must join a global network in which urban farmers grow produce on rooftops, a leading science commentator says.
Professor Julian Cribb, author of The Coming Famine, said the global food crisis was a forewarning of what could be expected as civilisation ran low on water, arable land and nutrients, and experienced soaring energy costs.
Professor Cribb said the urban farmers of the future - who would primarily grow vegetables - would play a much larger role in the global diet...
Read the full article here.
REGIONAL NRM: South Australia 'Caring for our Country' funding package announced
Media release
Hon Peter Garrett MP, Australian Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts
Hon Tony Burke MP, Australian Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
20 October 2008
PROJECTS TO PROTECT SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WETLANDS AND WINE DISTRICT
South Australia’s fragile wetlands and the internationally-renowned Padthaway wine growing district will be better protected under projects funded through the Caring for our Country initiative.
Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Garrett, and Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Tony Burke, said the Caring for our Country package would support eight projects around the state in 2008-09.
A total $18.9 million will be shared between the state’s eight Natural Resource Management boards...
Read the full media release here.
REGIONAL NRM: "Future of Regional NRM bodies remains uncertain"
Media Release
Senator Rachel Siewert, The Australian Greens
22 October 2008
The Australian Greens said today they remain very concerned about the future of regional Natural Resource Management (NRM) organisations and that of NRM in Australia.
"While the Government has moved to dampen down anger and frustration from regional NRM groups this year by committing to 60% of historic funding and some transmission funding for this financial year, the real impact will be felt next year when funding cuts take effect," said Senator Rachel Siewert...
Read the full media release here.
RENEWABLE ENERGY: "All new homes should have 'solar' option: LNP"
Brisbane Times
15 October 2008
All new homes in Queensland should have the option of a roof-top solar energy system covered by a gross feed-in tariff, the Liberal National Party has said.
The LNP's climate change spokesman, David Gibson, called on the State Government to adopt a gross feed-in tariff and reject its current net feed-in tariff, which pays a rebate to people with solar panels only if they produce enough energy to put electricity back into Queensland's grid.
This follows figures showing the Sunshine State has one of Australia's lowest take-up rates for solar technology...
Read the full article here.
RENEWABLE ENERGY: "$70m solar cell factory planned for Canberra"
ABC News
13 October 2008
A company is planning to build a $70 million solar cell factory in Canberra which could generate more than 100 jobs.
Spark Solar Australia hopes to build the factory next year with sites in Hume and Mitchell being considered. The company has also listed possible sites in Queanbeyan and Wollongong.
The factory will produce solar cells used in the manufacture of solar panels...
Read the full article here.
TRANSPORT: People Plan for Melbourne
The Australian Greens Victoria have just launched a new Melbourne transport website and discussion paper called The People Plan. This would cost $4 billion less than the
Eddington proposals and deliver a massive increase in public transport usage, right across Melbourne.
The website contains a map showing the train, tram and bus lines/extensions/services proposed. Rationales and costings are in the supporting document. Click here to take a look now.
TRANSPORT: "Outer suburbs 'missing out' on services"
The Age
13 October 2008
ONLY one out of every 100 residents in some of Melbourne's outer suburbs use public transport alone to get to work, a report shows.
The parliamentary report into outer suburban economic development found that in one of those areas, the south-east's Casey, almost 70% get to work by car alone...
Read the full article here.
WATER: "Premier Nathan Rees reveals Sydney water almost ran dry"
The Australian
23 October 2008
NSW Premier Nathan Rees has revealed just how close the state came to running out of water in February.
In a speech to the opening of the 9th World Congress of Metropolis in Sydney, Mr Rees said NSW had faced a dire water shortage crisis in February, the severity of which was not conveyed to the public.
Mr Rees, who was water minister until September 5, says he was gagged by then-premier Morris Iemma, but admitted for the first time today that water reserves had been in danger of drying up...
Read the full article here.
WATER: "Melbourne water stores drop to 34.2 per cent"
The Herald Sun
24 October 2008
MELBOURNE'S water storages have dropped for the second week in a row, leaving the city with only 34.2 per cent of its capacity.
The state's drought has continued to play havoc with Melbourne's storages after last week recording the first drop since July...
Read the full article here.
WATER: "Parched Toowoomba first to draw water from 'exploited' basin"
The Australian
17 October 2008
TOOWOOMBA will become the first large urban centre to draw its town water from the Great Artesian Basin, with more than 400 megalitres a month to be extracted to meet the needs of the drought-ravaged city on Queensland's Darling Downs.
A $17million project is under way to drill bores to meet Toowoomba's requirements as experts warned that water levels in the 1.7 million sqkm basin were falling sharply from overuse.
A referendum to pump recycled waste water to shrinking storages in Toowoomba, Australia's biggest inland city with a population of 120,000, was defeated in a 2006 referendum, with 62 per cent of residents voting no...
Read the full article here.
WATER: "Drinking water down the gurgler"
The Herald Sun
13 October 2008
HALF a billion litres of pure drinking water is being wasted each year in Victoria to test fire sprinkler systems in high-rise buildings and shopping centres.
The wasted water could fill 200 Olympic-sized pools when Melbourne's water storages are at their lowest level for this time of year since the Thomson Dam's completion in 1984...
Read the full article here.
16 October 2008
CLIMATE: Andrew Campbell presentation - 'Knowing & learning to deal with the climate challenge'
Andrew Campbell's presentation to the 2008 actKM Conference looks at climate change impacts and the implications for how we learn and manage knowledge at all levels and across all sectors of the economy and society. Organised by the actKM Forum, the 2008 actKM Forum Conference was held in Canberra on 14-15 October 2008 and is mainly attended by knowledge management (KM) professionals from across Australia. Andrew Campbell is Managing Director of Triple Helix Consulting and the former Executive Director of Land & Water Australia.
CLIMATE: Latest edition of 'CO2 News' (15 October 2008)
The 15 October 2008 edition of CO2 News includes:
- COAG agrees to develop national energy efficiency strategy
- Contract awarded for development of national emissions registry
- Wave energy could supply 35% of Australia’s power needs: report
- Councils develop model methods for engaging residents on climate issues
- GreenTECH Conference 08
- Bioenergy Australia 2008 Sustainable Bioenergy Opportunities for Australia
- Carbon Market Expo Australasia 2008
REGIONAL NRM, KNOWLEDGE MGMT: LWA Knowledge for Regional NRM Program wins Platinum Award
Phase 2 of the Land & Water Australia Knowledge for Regional NRM Program has won a Platinum Award in the actKM Forum 2008 Knowledge Management Awards. The award was announced at 2008 actKM Forum Conference dinner on 14 October 2008 at University House, Australian National University, Canberra, and reads: "This award recognises the Knowledge for Regional NRM Program - Phase 2 as an outstanding cultural and technological knowledge management program that has made significant achievements in organisational capability, performance and sustainability through the application of knowledge-based projects or activities."
LANDCARE: Watch the National Landcare Awards LIVE!
From Potts Point to Perth and Cooktown to Castlemaine, landcarers across the nation are being invited to join in celebrations for the upcoming National Landcare Awards ceremony via the first ever live webcast of the event.
The awards will be streamed live on the Landcare Heroes website on Thursday 23 October from 7pm Eastern Daylight Saving Time. Online viewers will celebrate with over 550 guests, politicians and celebrities attending the awards at the Great Hall of Parliament House, Canberra.
The evening will showcase the nation's top landcare projects and achievements of individual Landcarers, community environment groups and government environment organisations. There are 72 nominees across 10 categories with each nominee having previously won their respective state and territory category award (the National Awards are only held every two years).
Viewers will also see long time Landcare supporter and actor, Jack Thompson, present the inaugural People's Choice award on the night. The People's Choice award will be decided by votes cast on the website, giving the Australian public the opportunity to decide on their favourite environmental achievement.
Landcare Australia is encouraging landcare groups and networks across the nation to organise small celebratory gatherings to watch the webcast. It is possible to project the webcast onto a larger screen, and not only celebrate with the winners, but also recognise each Landcare group's own achievements at a local level.
BIODIVERSITY: Birds Australia 'Engaging Ethnic Communities in Urban Bird Conservation' project
Urban development and sprawl has significantly changed city landscapes, especially over the past 50 years. These changes have favoured larger birds, including parrots, fruit-eating & meat-eating birds, exotic birds, and the larger honeyeaters, while populations of most smaller bird species are in decline.
Restoration of the balance of bird species in urban areas requires the involvement of all sectors of the community, including people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds. This is most important in capital cities where a significant proportion of the community (31% Sydney & 28 % Melbourne) speak a language other than English at home. (ABS 2006 Census)
Birds Australia commenced the Engaging Ethnic Communities in Urban Bird Conservation project in July 2007, aimed at increasing the participation of people from CALD community groups in bird appreciation and conservation in urban areas. Twenty bilingual educators from seven different language groups (Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Arabic, Greek, Italian and Spanish) regularly visit community organisations to educate members of their communities on practical ways to live more sustainably.
BIODIVERSITY, SYDNEY: Green & Golden Bell Frog - Technical Workshop - Monday 17 November
The Department of Environment & Climate Change along with Sydney Olympic Park Authority invites biodiversity management professionals & field staff to come along to Sydney Olympic Park for information about:
- The Green & Golden Bell Frog (GGBF) and its habitat preferences
- Constructing GGBF habitat
- Managing the GGBF
- Current GGBF programs and resources
- GGBF field trip
SUSTAINABILITY: Frankston wins Australian Sustainable Cities national title for 2008
Frankston was announced the national winner of the Keep Australia Beautiful, Australian Sustainable Cities Awards, held in Sydney. The Award recognises the City of Frankston for its commitment and investment in a wide range of environmental sustainability initiatives and its support of local community projects. In addition to winning the overall title, Frankston also won the national Resource Recovery Award and was highly commended in the Water Conservation and Community Partnership categories. Carrum Downs Secondary College in Frankston took home the national Young Legends Award.
SUSTAINABILITY, NSW LOCAL GOV'T: Submit a Poster and get 'Onya Soapbox'?
The Urban Sustainability Support Alliance (USSA) is co-ordinating a poster presentation session titled 'Onya Soapbox' at the upcoming NSW Integrating Sustainability in Local Government Symposium on the 24 - 25 November 2008. Posters provide a opportunity for an informal presentation featuring "give and take" with symposium participants. Presenting a poster is also a good way in which to discuss and receive feedback on a project and share the lessons learned. Successful poster contributors will be eligible for a discounted registration rate at the Symposium. Prizes will awarded to the best poster as voted for by the participants.
Key dates:
- Expressions of Interest (250 word abstract only) are due by Monday 20 October 2008.
- Presenters will be advised of the outcome of their Expression of Interest by Friday 24 October 2008
- Final Posters are due by COB Friday 14 November 2008
- Symposium Monday 24-Tuesday 25 November 2008
For further information email rebecca.jones@lgsa.org.au or visit the USSA website. For more information about the NSW Integrating Sustainability in Local Government Symposium visit the official website.
09 October 2008
CLIMATE: Urban Case Studies, Garnaut Climate Change Review
Case studies prepared by various state and territory government bodies have been contributed to the Garnaut Review online resource library. These contributions serve to highlight successful local practices and ways in which Australian communities are already positively addressing the impacts of climate change. The case studies relevant in the urban context include:
- Lochiel Park: Case Study of a Green Village – South Australia
- TravelSmart and LivingSmart Case Study – Western Australia
- Maine’s Power Project – Mt Alexander Shire, Castlemaine – Victoria
- Far North Queensland 2025 Climate Change Project - Queensland
- High resolution terrain mapping of the NSW Central and Hunter coasts to help prepare for climate change – New South Wales
ENV EDUCATION: Additional and final Write it up! workshop in Sydney 21 October
Due to unexpected demand a third and final Write it up! workshop will be held in Sydney on Tuesday 21st October. The session will be held at the Local Government and Shires Association, 28 Margaret Street Sydney (close to Wynyard Station).
The Write it up! program has been developed by the Australian Association for Environmental Education to assist educators write up case studies of their projects.
To obtain a workshop flier please email Faith Thomas at Living Schools. The Write it up! guide is available for download here.
If you had previously registered for the workshop in North Sydney, please email Faith Thomas as soon as possible if you will not be able to attend this session.
ENV EDUCATION: Reminder, RSVPs closing for Write it up! workshops North Sydney and Bega
The Write it up! program has been developed by the Australian Association for Environmental Education to assist educators write up case studies of their projects. Write it up! workshops are being held at:
- North Sydney on Tuesday 14 October, with RSVPs due today Thursday 9 October.
- Bega on Friday 17 October, with RSVPs due by next Monday 13 October.
LEADERSHIP: Commonwealth Bank Green Ambassadors
The Commonwealth Bank and Conservation Volunteers Australia have come together to recognise, reward and support young Australians who are actively involved in improving their local environment. Now in its fourth year, the Commonwealth Bank Green Ambassadors program is searching for young people between 16 and 30 years of age who can demonstrate leadership in one of the following five categories:
- At Home… living green and doing what it takes to reduce their household’s environmental impact
- At Work… taking action, influencing and empowering others to reduce the ‘footprint’ of the workplace and its employees
- At School, TAFE, College or University… positively influencing other students, teachers and the administration
- On the Road… using ‘smart travel’ practices to minimise negative effects on the environment
- In the Community… actively participating in or leading practical conservation activities in local neighbourhoods
TRANSPORT: "A small step for commuters, a giant leap for saving the planet"
Canberra Times
3 October 2008
IF ALL Sydney's car commuters stopped their vehicles two kilometres away from work today, got out and walked the rest of the way, the city would be spared 1200 tonnes of carbon emissions.
If they did the same thing every working day for a year, the reduction would be 312,000 tonnes...
Read the full article here.
URBAN PARKS: "Let slip the dogs of community park war"
The Age
5 October 2008
Recreation and environmentalism go head to head in suburbia.
A MOVIE scriptwriter might call it The Battle for Alphington Tip. Greenies would say it is Pooches v The Environment and dog groups see it as another unnecessary assault on the rights of dogs and their owners.
So far there have been two confirmed casualties: one dead kangaroo and the dog that mauled it, which was put down. Mix in a divided community, fears of dog attacks, fearsome 'roos, toxic sludge, a council master plan, the safety of native animals and an election campaign and you have the stuff of a minor epic. Homer made the Iliad from such a local row.
At the heart of the battle is Darebin Parklands, about 40 hectares of park in the inner north just eight kilometres from the CBD...
Read the full article here.
WASTE MGMT: "Council plan for $2 levy to pick up your butts"
AdelaideNow.com.au
6 October 2008
A METROPOLITAN council wants smokers to pay a $2 levy to help cover the clean-up costs of discarded butts.
The council says the State Government should impose the levy on every packet of cigarettes.
It will seek support from the state's other councils at the Local Government Association's annual general meeting on October 24. Councils spend between $1 million and $2 million each year cleaning up litter, which included cigarette butts...
Read the full article here.
SUSTAINABILITY: "Green solution just outside your door"
The Sydney Morning Herald
7 October 2008
THE English have their allotments; in Sydney we use the streets. In a variation on guerilla gardening, Sydneysiders are moving veggie plots from the backyard to the street verge, and converting formerly fallow public land into mini-market gardens.
"Environmentally, ethically and, from a community perspective, it's a great thing to do," says Eva Johnstone, a landscape architect, who with her husband, Bill, has been growing vegetables on their Marrickville street verge for the past two years...
Read the full article here.
02 October 2008
FUNDING: 'Caring for our Country' outcomes released
The document 'Caring for our Country Outcomes 2008-2013' outlines the specific outcomes that the Australian Government 'Caring for our Country' funding program will deliver in its first five years of operation, and the potential strategies for achieving these outcomes. The document places these outcomes in the context of 20 year projections of the results the Australian Government expects Caring for our Country to deliver in each of the six national priority areas, which are:
- the National Reserve System
- biodiversity and natural icons
- coastal environments and critical aquatic habitats
- sustainable farm practices
- natural resource management in northern and remote Australia, and
- community skills, knowledge and engagement.
Caring for our Country will be delivered in partnership with regional natural resources management groups, local, state and territory governments, Indigenous groups, industry bodies, land managers, farmers, landcare groups and communities.
BUILT ENVIRONMENT: New Report, 'The Second Plank – Building a Low Carbon Economy with Energy Efficient Buildings'
Australia's building sector could cut the projected price of carbon trading permits by 14 per cent – and generate annual savings of $38 billion by 2050 – with energy efficiency measures that complement the federal government's proposed carbon pollution reduction scheme (CPRS), says a new report commissioned by a cross section of peak building industry and environment groups.
'The Second Plank – Building a Low Carbon Economy with Energy Efficient Buildings' report was commissioned by the Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council's (ASBEC) Climate Change Task Group in response to the CPRS Green Paper. The report provides an economic analysis of the greater benefits that energy efficiency measures for buildings can deliver, with a policy mix offering better incentives for the building sector to invest more resources to increase energy efficiency.
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