Carbon Insights

25 November 2009

Welcome to Carbon Insights in the middle of a momentous week for Australia's carbon markets. In this edition we'll look at the latest version of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, which the opposition will now support - or will it?

We also look at the Federal Government's decision to require commercial building owners to disclose energy efficiency, and NSW's Solar Bonus Scheme which could make power generation a more attractive prospect for the average citizen.

Deal or no deal? - Opposition agrees to Government's CPRS offer

By Brendan Bateman.

The Government has amended the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, and the Opposition appears to have decided to support it. Brendan Bateman picks through the detail to see what shape the CPRS will now have.

Mandatory energy efficiency disclosure obligations for commercial buildings

By Brendan Bateman and Honor Irvine.

If you're a building owner selling or leasing an office space over 2000 square metres, you'll soon have to comply with laws requiring you to disclose the building's energy efficiency - a law that eventually will affect all commercial building owners, as Brendan Bateman and Honor Irvine explain.

The value of solar electric energy to the electricity market - gross versus net feed-in tariffs

By Naveena Rajaretnam.

NSW's recent decision to base its Solar Bonus Scheme on a gross feed-in tariff bucks the national trend of using net feed-in tariffs. Naveena Rajaretnam looks at how the scheme will work.

Good COP Bad COP

Clayton Utz partner Brendan Bateman and Graeme Dennis will be delegates at the upcoming United Nations' Copenhagen Climate Change Conference - COP15. Brendan and Graeme will share their views of the COP15 discussions at a breakfast seminar to be held in Sydney.
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