This draft report was released to assist participants in preparing a submission to the public inquiry into Electricity Network Regulation. Australia’s electricity sector is facing a number of challenges over the coming years. This includes a large investment requirement for networks to replace ageing assets, meet growing levels of peak demand, reliability requirements and to...

The Victorian Government has announced its intentions to undertake an allocation of brown coal from the Latrobe Valley in 2012-13. The Valley’s coal is abundant and cheap to mine, with probable reserves of 65 billion tonnes. Currently 13 billion tonnes of ‘economic’ coal in the Latrobe Valley is unallocated, while 20 billion tonnes has been...

China has long since been perceived as the laggard in the climate action space, and as scapegoat for other countries, like Australia, delaying action. But this report argues that this claim is increasingly difficult – if not impossible – to make in light of China’s recent policies. Key findings: China has, for self-interested reasons, moved...

This publication presents information on greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector in New Zealand for the calendar years 1990– 2011.

This paper presents the results of simulations using the integrated Land Use in Rural New Zealand model to analyse the effect of various New Zealand emissions trading scheme scenarios on land-use, emissions, and output in a temporally and spatially explicit manner. It compares the impact of afforestation to the impact of other land-use change on...