Redefining The Role Of Business & Sport: How Can They Join Forces To Accelerate Low-Carbon Technologies Across Different Sectors.

Can you imagine a world where combating climate change is an exciting and inspiring opportunity, an opportunity to harness the power of the best, to raise the bar, to overcome hurdles and to redefine the role of business and sport in society?

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing our society, already affecting natural environments and people around the world. In 2017, global CO2 emissions have risen again, after being flat for 3 years. Hence, global greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 are likely to be at the high end of the range projected by scientists under the 2°C and 1.5°C temperature scenarios, making it increasingly difficult to be on track to meet the global 2030 emission goals.

Learn more about the webinar and register here - “Redefining The Role Of Business & Sport: How Can They Join Forces To Accelerate Low-Carbon Technologies Across Different Sectors.” 

National energy guarantee would cut 6 per cent off power bills in best scenario

Even the best energy policy will do little to reduce costs for consumers, experts have warned, as the Turnbull government resists pressure to substantiate claims its new policy will save Australians $2 a week on power bills. 

Minister for Environment and Energy Josh Frydenberg, Deputy
 Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and Prime Minister Malcolm
 Turnbull during Question Time at Parliament House in
 Canberra on Wednesday.  

 In Parliament on Wednesday, Labor seized on suggestions the reduction could be closer to 50¢ a week but Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg stood by the claim of an average $115-a-year saving between 2020 and 2030.

"The national energy guarantee is a credible, workable, pro-market policy that will deliver lower power prices for Australians and involves no taxes, no subsidies and no emission trading schemes," he said. 

A report this week from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission found a 63 per cent power price rise since 2007 had put consumers under "unacceptable pressure"

  

Read Eryk Bagshaw’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “National energy guarantee would cut 6 per cent off power bills in best scenario.”

'Biggest' or 'best' is easy is the cost doesn't matter

Becoming “the best” or “the biggest” at anything is easy if you are prepared to pay the cost.

Maybe this looks like a
slice of cake, but it is an
image of fracking.
 

The United States oil industry is ready to stride past Saudi Arabia to become the world’s biggest oil producer, but the cost will be measured in ruined communities and countless lives left in disarray.

Energy independence, or oil self-sufficiency at least, hinges on the recent development and arrival of hydraulic fracturing that has allowed the U.S, to extract oil previously economically unavailable.

The lure of “energy independence”, and of course massive profits for just a few, has overridden the short-term benefits and costs, that include among them the long-term potential pollution of aquifers, the inordinate use of water upon which communities depend and the fact that if could be all over in just few years.

The Huffington Post writes about this development in a story headed: “U.S. to be world’s top oil producer by 2016, surpassing Saudi Arabia and Russia, IEA predicts”.