The Quarterly Update of Australia’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory provides estimates of Australia’s national inventory up to the June quarter of 2015. The ‘Quarterly Update’ is a publication series that reports on the latest estimates of Australia’s national greenhouse gas inventory.

This document is a component of the CRC for Low Carbon Living Closing the Loop project. It provides an overview of existing data around building energy performance in Australia to guide the selection of building typologies to be included into the research. This document also outlines key stakeholders in the property sector, and major trends...

The draft report on Australia’s climate policy options is the second part of the Authority’s Special Review, as requested by the Minister for the Environment. The Authority will look at the full range of policies, including the various types of emissions trading schemes. The draft report lays out how the Authority will evaluate the policy...

New Zealand households are emitting 4.6 per cent less greenhouse gas than they used to. This is a fall of approximately one tonne of emissions for a two person household that spends $80,000 per year. That’s the equivalent of the emissions involved in driving from Picton to Bluff five times. Emissions from the consumption by...

The immediate effect of the 2012 carbon price was to increase the costs faced by most electricity generators, by an amount that varied between individual power stations depending on that station’s emissions intensity (the emissions per unit of electricity). These costs were then passed on in higher prices to consumers. Simple economics suggests that two...