Environmental Links

• Publications
• State & Federal Government Bodies
• Industry and Non-Government Information

Publications

• State of the Climate-Australian Bureau of Meteorology 2010
• Accounting For The Costs of Carbon National Centre for Sustainability (NCS) at Swinburne University of Technology results on climate change research survey.
• Growing the Green Collar Economy: Skills and labour challenges in reducing our greenhouse emissions and national environmental footprint. CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems and The Allen Consulting Group report to the Dusseldorp Skills Form, June 2008.
• Draft Copenhagen Climate Change Agreement - the Danish Text.
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/08/copenhagen-climate-change
• National Carbon Offset Standard. Released by the Department of Climate Change. (November, 2009)
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State and Federal Government Bodies

• Garnaut Climate Change Review http://www.garnautreview.org.au
• Federal Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts  http://www.environment.gov.au
• Australian Government Emissions Trading Scheme
  http://www.climatechange.gov.au/default.aspx
• Links to all State and Territory government environment bodies and relevant Ministers http://www.environment.gov.au/about/library/govtdepts.html
• House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Heritage http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/environ/index.htm
• Senate Standing Committee on Environment Communications, Information Technology and the Arts http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/ecita_ctte/index.htm
• For information on State Parliamentary Committees, visit the relevant State's parliamentary website (for example, http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au).
• Sustainability Victoria www.sustainability.vic.gov.au

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Industry and Non Government Information

• ClimateChangeCorp is a UK based independant news website focused on climate change stories and events from around the globe. www.climatechangecorp.com
• United Nations Climate Change Talks, Poznan, Poland December 2008. safesearch and envirosearch sponsored Wendy Miller to attend the talks as Youth Delegate. Wendy is a member of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition. Click here to read about her journey at the recent UN talks.

• Modelling Success: Designing an ETS that works (3306 KB)

• There is a growing view among investment professionals that environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues can affect the performance of investment portfolios. Investors fulfilling their fiduciary (or equivalent) duty therefore need to give appropriate consideration to these issues, but to date have lacked a framework for doing so. The Principles for Responsible Investment provide this framework.
• Praxiom Research Group have translated the ISO14001 standard into plain English
  http://www.praxiom.com

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