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11 May 2021 The Morrison government has delivered another federal budget that offers little support for Australia’s rapidly emerging clean energy sector, choosing instead to double down on its ‘gas fired’ agenda and pay major emitters to reduce their emissions. It’s another budget from the Coalition that will channel further public funds to the fossil fuel sector, particularly helping to grow the gas industry while letting major emitters off the hook, while almost entirely ignoring burg...

Search Tasmanias Lark Distilling Co has been recognised as Australia’s first carbon neutral distillery, with its operations having no net negative impact on the climate. (Founder Bill Lark.) Tasmanias Lark Distilling Co has been recognised as Australia’s first carbon neutral distillery, with its operations having no net negative impact on the climate. Tasmanias Lark Distilling Co has been recognised as Australia’s first carbon neutral distillery, with its operations having no net negative...

Jarrod Reedie ECOPact, a low carbon concrete product range, has been unveiled this week by Holcim. The product is able to reduce the embodied carbon of buildings, infrastructure and homes. With 20% of Australia’s annual greenhouse gas emissions derived from the construction industry, sourcing sustainable building materials has become increasingly important. ECOPact is able to reduce embodied carbon by 30-60 percent, compared to the Australian National Life Cycle Inventory Database basecase. T...

Recent weather events in Western Australia served to further emphasise the fact our climate is changing. It’s also adding to the awakening that businesses, and importantly, customers are taking notice and speaking up about our changing environment. As a business community, it’s our duty to listen.  As the need for organisations to continue the acceleration of their transformation and innovation agendas, there’s pressing need to find a way to combine technology and su...

REA announces carbon neutral certification 1 minute read REA Group has announced it is now a carbon neutral organisation after completing the Climate Active certification process for its FY20 carbon footprint. REA’s carbon neutrality was achieved with the introduction of initiatives that directly reduce emissions across the business and by offsetting 100% of the remaining carbon footprint. This year, REA has invested in carbon offset reforestation, renewable energy and energy efficiency pro...

NEXTDC launches first of its kind carbon neutrality program 18 Mar 2021 Australian data centre provider NEXTDC has launched a carbon neutrality program, the likes of which have been called the first of its kind in the local market. The NEXTNeutral data centre program encourages organisations to advance their own sustainability priorities, and to work with NEXTDC with the aim of using carbon offsets to ‘decarbonise the digital economy’. NEXTDC currently operates as a 100% carbon neutral...

Australian data centre solutions provider NextDC has launched NextNeutral, the first carbon neutral colocation solution available in the local market, according to a statement. The solution aims to reduce the carbon footprint of data centres, which account for 3 percent of global energy consumption, through investment in carbon offsetting.  Thanks to this, NextDC is accredited as 100 percent carbon neutral under the Australian Federal Government’s Climate Active program. NextNeutral offers t...

What really makes Felix stand out from other mobile plans, is that its certified carbon neutral by the Climate Active initiative.

19 February 2021 The Clean Energy Regulator has unveiled a new initiative to improve the transparency of corporate carbon offset purchases, announcing it will publish a new annual Corporate Emissions Reduction Transparency report (CERT), that details the voluntary carbon offset measures undertaken by Australia’s largest emitters. The Clean Energy Regulator administers the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting scheme (NGERs), which collects and publishes annual emissions and energy consumpt...

The corporation of the City of Adelaide is now carbon neutral certified through Climate Active. The City of Adelaide’s 2019/20 business operations have been certified as carbon neutral by the Australian Government – delivering on the target established by Council in 2008 to be carbon neutral by 2020. Lord Mayor Sandy Verschoor said that as a city committed to environmental leadership, the City of Adelaide is playing its part to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change. “...