An Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation and Carbon Biosequestration Opportunities from Rural Land Use
This 172-page report estimates the amount of greenhouse gases that can be stored or mitigated by changes in rural land use in Queensland and more broadly, Australia.

Carbon and rural land use: key findings
An analysis of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation and Biosequestration Opportunities from Rural Land Use. This report estimates the amount of greenhouse gases that can be stored or mitigated by changes in rural land use in Queensland and more broadly, Australia.

Sydney climate partnership wins top prize (Media Release)
PORTFOLIO: Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
http://www.csiro.au/news/Sydney-climate-partnership-wins-Eureka.html
SNIPPET: The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world. CSIRO expertise is organised into 16 research areas. The Marine National Facility -.

TITLE: More grants open to help farmers adapt to climate change - The Hon Tony Burke MP - Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
PORTFOLIO: Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
http://www.maff.gov.au/media/media_releases/2009/august/more_grants_open_to_help_farmers_adapt_to_climate_change
SNIPPET: The Rudd Government is expecting more strong interest from farmers in the latest round of funding to help them adapt to climate change. Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Tony Burke today said applications are now open for the second round of FarmReady Industry Grants. 'Our farming sector will be among the hardest hit by climate change if we don't act now to help farmers adapt to the challenges of the future.

Australian Government Media Releases

Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - transcript 23 July 2009
PORTFOLIO: Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
URL: http://www.environment.gov.au/minister/wong/2009/tr20090723a.html
Obviously the Government does not have the majority in the Senate, and if the Opposition - who does have the largest block of votes in the Senate - want to put things to us, the Government will consider them. We've had advice from different sources, we've also spoken to the electricity market regulators and those are the things we considered before arriving at our decision to provide assistance through the Electricity Sector Adjustment Scheme of around $3 billion.

Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, nuclear energy - transcript 23 July 2009
PORTFOLIO: Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
URL: http://www.environment.gov.au/minister/wong/2009/tr20090723.html
Now the other point that's come up in recent days, Rio Tinto mentioning that we need to look at nuclear energy as a possibility to supply our energy needs. I've just wondering if there's any point in time where we might see a change in the swing back to nuclear energy given that there seems to be a, well an ongoing push, certainly it's an ongoing discussion point of the consideration of nuclear energy.

Castlemaine shows business how to cut emissions (Media Release)
PORTFOLIO: Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
URL: http://www.csiro.au/news/Castlemaine-shows-how-to-cut-emissions.html
SNIPPET: The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world. The Marine National Facility -. Project leader from CSIRO Energy Transformed Flagship, Dr Bill Lilley, said each business had specific energy needs and so the options available to achieve emissions savings had to be tailored to their individual operations.

Improved climate change projections for SE Asia (Media Release)
PORTFOLIO: Innovation, Industry, Science and ResearchURL: http://www.csiro.au/news/
Improved-climate-change-projections-SE-Asia.html
SNIPPET: The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world. The Marine National Facility -. The scientists are using climate models developed by CSIRO to convert broad-scale climate change projections for south-east Asia into local-scale regional projections.

Australian Government Media Releases

Small Block Irrigators Exit Grant package expanded - media release 24 April 2009
PORTFOLIO: Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
URL: http://www.environment.gov.au/minister/wong/2009/mr20090424.html
SNIPPET: Under these revisions, the Small Block Irrigators Exit Grant Package has been extended to irrigators with farms between 15 and 40 hectares, Senator Wong said. This expansion of the Small Block Irrigators Exit Grant Package provides increased opportunities for irrigators to exit the industry while remaining in their own homes and communities, Senator Wong said

Greenland's 'good news' methane finding (Media Release)
PORTFOLIO: Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
URL: http://www.csiro.au/news/Methane-clathrates-findings.html
SNIPPET: The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world. CSIRO expertise is organised into 16 research areas. The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research is a partnership between CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology.

Carbon sinks losing the battle with rising emissions

PORTFOLIO: Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
SNIPPET: 'Forests, grasslands and oceans are absorbing carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the atmosphere faster than ever but they are not keeping pace with rapidly rising emissions,' says CSIRO scientist and co-Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Dr Mike Raupach. Dr Raupach and Swiss scientist, Dr Nicolas Gruber, co-Chaired one of 43 sessions at the conference - Climate Change, Vulnerability of Carbon Sinks. Dr Raupach says concern about the vulnerability of carbon sinks is based on identifying several mechanisms that could cause the present stabilising role of oceans and land to be weakened or even reversed.

Algae could fuel cars and jobs

PORTFOLIO: Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
SNIPPET: CSIRO Energy Transformed researcher Dr Tom Beer and his team discovered the humble organisms' green credentials during a detailed life-cycle analysis of the benefits of algal biodiesel. Algae thrive on carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), which means that environmentally damaging CO 2 emissions from industry could also become a useful resource. Algal biodiesel could also offer a number of other benefits.

Emergency stops for climate?

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ECOS magazine takes a look at global-scale mechanisms – natural and man-made – being proposed to rapidly reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) below levels at which dangerous climate change is predicted.

Powering the future – solar cells by the metre

Trials commencing today promise a new era of solar cells that are printed like money.
19 February 2009

World leading research from CSIRO’s Future Manufacturing Flagship as part of the Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium (VICOSC) aims to develop flexible, large area, cost-effective, reel-to-reel printable plastic solar cells.

Victorian Minister for Energy and Resources, Peter Batchelor, announced today the start of printing trials by Securency International, a banknote printing company.

GREENHOUSE 09: new climate change challenges

SNIPPET: According to conference convenor and coordinator for the Australian Climate Change Science Program, CSIRO's Paul Holper, the event will attract some of the world's leading climate scientists, policy makers and government and industry representatives. 'There has been tremendous research progress since the launch of Australia's climate change projections in 2007,' Mr Holper says. The conference program will cover a range of issues, from the latest Australian and international climate change science to examples of how industry and government are tackling climate change.

King tides - a glimpse of future sea level rise

PORTFOLIO: Innovation, Industry, Science and Research

SNIPPET: 'By 2060 to 2070 we could be experiencing tides of at least this magnitude every month, rather than just twice a year due to climate-change induced sea level rise,' says a research scientist with CSIRO's Climate Adaptation National Research Flagship, Dr Kathy McInnes. King tides are natural events that happen twice a year. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, sea levels are projected to rise by between 18-79cm or more this century.

CSIRO environmental sustainability grant

PORTFOLIO: Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
SNIPPET: Energymark is a concept designed by CSIRO to bring communities together to discuss energy technologies and climate change. The CSIRO grants give each university team the opportunity to increase research and project development skills. The program will culminate in a national competition next year, where the results will be judged by a panel of experts in the field of climate change, energy and environmental finance. Grants have been awarded to SIFE teams at the University of Western Sydney University of New South Wales Bond University Swinburne University University of Southern Queensland La Trobe University Monash University Victoria University and Macquarie University.

CSIRO develops zero-emission home for Aust families

23/09/2008 - Thirty kilometres north of Melbourne CBD, in the community of Laurimar, a new type of house – the first of its kind in Australia – is about to be constructed.

The four-bedroom, detached house, will blend with the streetscape of the new development but will embody a completely new vision – a zero-emissions house that Australian families can afford.