APO Research

Mining and the environment
Stewart Smith Research Service, Parliament of New South Wales22 July, 2009 This paper briefly places the contribution of mining into the context of the wider economy, and focuses on the impact of coal mining on both natural and agricultural areas of NSW.

Baseline and credit versus cap and trade emissions trading schemes
McLennan Magasanik Associates The Climate Institute20 July, 2009 This briefing paper critiques the proposal to establish a baseline and credit type scheme instead of an emissions trading scheme based on a cap and trade mechanism.

Breaking through on technology - perspectives from Australia
The Climate Institute20 July, 2009 This paper presents an Australian perspective on the opportunities and barriers to clean technology development, deployment and transfer, both within and between countries.

Urban congestion: why 'free' roads are costly
Paul Hubbard Treasury17 July, 2009 Many see traffic jams as a fact of city life, but its root cause is overuse of a common resource – the urban road network. Putting a price on access to roads at busy times could encourage individuals to change their travel plans, according to this report.

Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Working Group Final Report - July 2009
http://www.atcouncil.gov.au/documents/vfe_finalreport_09.aspx

Australia praised for transport emissions stance; Turnbull; RET; WA lead charges
Australia praised for stance on international transport emissions * 'All our hopes rest on the U.S. and China', says Turnbull * EPA Victoria and Global Sustainability issue new offsets guide * Don't make RET a bargaining chip, implores Clean Energy Council * Esperance port changes plea over lead debacle * Australian scientists sound warning in new ice and climate change reports read the full story

Egypt: Renewable Energy and Clean Transport Are Cornerstones of Low Carbon Growth
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22203619~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html

50 percent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions stem from transportation industry
http://www.scb.se/Pages/PressArchive____259760.aspx?PressReleaseID=274689

APO Research

Urban passenger transport: how people move about in Australian cities
David Cosgrove, David Gargett Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics14 May, 2009 This information sheet analyses the trends in passenger transport in Australia's eight capital cities over the period 1977 to 2008. Although car travel continues to dominate travel in our cities, urban public transport has accounted for much of the growth in travel from 2004 to 2008.

From a theory to a consensus on emissions
John M. Broder The New York Times18 May, 2009 Cap and trade, hatched as an academic theory in obscure economic journals, has become the policy of choice in the debate over how to slow the heating of the planet.

Japanese team tout solar-powered cargo ship

By author@nospam.vnunet.com (BusinessGreen.com Staff) on supply-chain

BusinessGreen.com Staff, BusinessGreen, Wednesday 27 August 2008 at 13:06:00

Could your Prius soon be delivered using solar power?

We've had solar powered cars and even solar powered planes, but now engineers in Japan have revealed they are working a solar powered cargo ship....