The federal government has taken the first step towards introducing new fuel emission standards
Friday, 19 August 2022
The federal government has taken the first step towards introducing new fuel emission standards to get more electric vehicles into the domestic market, reducing price and emissions - at the national EV summit that kicks off today in Canberra.
The event will be attended by Greenpeace CEO, David Ritter, and Senior Campaigner, Lindsay Soutar.
PLUS, Australia's biggest climate polluter, AGL, says it is keen to work with the federal government to reduce emissions, following a consultation paper released by the federal government that sets out the possibility of reforming the safeguard mechanism - a policy introduced by the Abbott government in 2016 to prevent increases in industrial emissions.
Labor signals new fuel standards in bid to boost electric vehicle uptake
The Minister for Energy and Climate Change, Chris Bowen, will soon release a discussion paper on bringing fuel standards into line with almost all other nations and ensure inefficient cars are not dumped in Australia.
Bank Australia to steer customers towards electric vehicles with halt to loans for fossil fuel cars in 2025
Bank Australia is set to announce today that it will stop offering loans for new fossil fuel cars from 2025, in a step it says will encourage more people to buy electric vehicles.
Consultation has begun on the federal government's safeguard mechanism reforms designed to help reach achieve national emissions targets
Australia's largest greenhouse gas polluter, AGL, says it is keen to work with the federal government to reduce emissions.
Federal Government commits $100 million to clean energy apprenticeships
The government is committing $100 million over four years to 10,000 new clean-energy apprentices, with funding to continue across the full term of apprenticeships.
As oceans warm, snapping shrimp sound warning
Research published by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists today in Frontiers in Marine Science confirmed their previous observations that rising temperatures increase the sound of snapping shrimp, a tiny crustacean found in temperate and tropical coastal marine environments around the world.