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Students can access $950 from stimulus package to fund green skills training |
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Written by Bruce Thomas
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Monday, 16 February 2009 14:44 |
More than 100,000 higher education students currently receiving income support including youth allowance and Austudy will be able to access the $950 training and learning bonus contained in the Government’s stimulus package passed on Friday. The payment will be paid to students enrolled by 31 March 2009.
The payment will also be paid to postgraduate students receiving the Australian postgraduate award.
Acquiring additional skills that will be attractive to prospective employers should be a high priority for all students. Valued skills that students can gain to support the move to the low carbon economy range from energy and resource management in the workplace to an understanding and capability in managing carbon liability in the business value chain as mandated by the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act and the Carbon Pollution Reporting Scheme.
More information is available at: http://www.centrelink.gov.au/internet/internet.nsf/individuals/bonus_payments_feb2009.htm
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Action on emissions is needed now as warming predictions worsen, says expert |
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Written by Bruce Thomas
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Monday, 16 February 2009 17:13 |
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The concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is rising more rapidly than expected, increasing the likelihood that without aggressive action to reduce emissions the climate system could cross a critical threshold by the end of the century, Chris Field, Director of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University and co-chair of IPCC Working Group 2 has reported to the 2009 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. “Studies indicate that greenhouse warming could trigger a vicious cycle of feedback, in which carbon dioxide released from thawing tundra and increasingly fire-prone forests drives global temperatures even higher.” |
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Written by Richard Bolus
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Friday, 13 February 2009 07:57 |
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The National Greenhouse and Energy reporting Act 2007 (the Act) was passed on 29 September 2007 establishing a mandatory reporting system for corporate greenhouse gas emissions and energy production and consumption. The first reporting period under the Act commenced on 1 July 2008. Is your company an entity that is required to apply for registration and report? |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 19 February 2009 14:53 |
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Green Skills - critical to supporting the low-carbon economy recovery |
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Written by Rob Nicholls
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Wednesday, 04 February 2009 18:31 |
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Helen Liddell in her article "Recovery must be low-carbon" published in 04/02/09 AFR lays down the foundations for achieving an economic recovery that that focuses not only on providing the short term stimulus to avoid a deep seated recession but creates a platform for delivering a sustainable & resilient recovery that is focused on low carbon outcomes and in particular energy efficiency. A key supporting component to the approaches she has proposed is to focus on the development of green skills across the labour force as these will flow directly through to the adoption of sustainable / energy efficient / low emission business practices which will contribute directly to the realisation of many negative-cost abatement solutions, seen as so important for addressing climate change & have the potential to contribute a net-positive economic benefit of around $AU8bn by 2020. Creating the knowledge, skills and competencies within the workforce for the low carbon economy is essential for the Australian economy to be able to respond effectively to the key challenge of addressing climate change whilst reducing risks to competitiveness & the labour market. Under an initiative of green skills training programs, with targeted and supported investment from government, Australia will be provided with capacity building platform to deliver measurable long term improvements to carbon productivity whilst helping to secure workers current jobs and investing longer term in the next generation of jobs within clean tech & renewables industries as well as a sustainable low-carbon transformational shaping of incumbent industry. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:12 |
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