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'Clean Energy Future Plan' - Briefing for Local Government: Update July 2011

On 10 July 2011, the Prime Minister released the Federal Government's 'Clean Energy Future Plan'  (Plan). 

The centrepiece of the Plan is the introduction of a carbon price starting at $23 per tonne of carbon pollution on 1 July 2012.  This price will be payable by Australia's 500 most carbon-intensive businesses in the stationary energy, …

Navigating the new environment: Briefing Paper May 2009

Climate change and its various consequences have resulted in a new environment for councils and, especially, for their planners. In particular, planners face:  

• A new physical environment, in which the effects of climate change are increasingly evident.
• A new regulatory environment, in which legislative and policy responses have been developed to deal …