This paper recommends specific actions that need to be taken internationally as well as domestically in order to effectively control the embedded CO2 emissions in China’s trade. China’s capital-intensive, export-oriented, spectacular economic growth since launching its open-door policy and economic reforms in late 1978 not only has created jobs and has lifted millions of the...

This report is the third biennial assessment of the National Water Initiative (NWI) undertaken by the National Water Commission.

The Stationary Energy Sector Report concludes that there are no technological impediments to transforming Australia’s stationary energy sector to zero emissions over the next ten years. The costs of transformation are adequately offset by savings made from shifting away from the business as usual scenario. No resource constraints were identified. With adequate societal and political...

Australia has the highest average solar radiation per square meter of any continent in the world yet we are failing to capitalise on the potential benefits of large-scale solar. As we move towards and beyond the 20% by 2020 Renewable Energy Target (RET), large-scale solar technologies will need to play an increasingly important role in...

"The future is in our hands, and it will be defined by the way we handle the current minerals boom. Get it wrong, and we falter. Get it right, and we set the nation up for decades to come."Prime Minister, the Hon. Julia Gillard