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Emissions Reduction Fund – A Transport Opportunity worth Taking?

By transficient|2015-07-25T10:39:43+10:00July 25th, 2015|freight transport, greenhouse gas emissions, low carbon|

I stand corrected. Last year I described the Direct Action replacement of the previous government’s carbon pricing mechanism as offering transport companies nothing, yet in the first Emission Reduction Fund (ERF) auction in April, transport group AHG was awarded a $2 million contract to reduce its emissions. For the $1.89 billion (75%) of ERF funding

Emissions Reduction Fund Offers Transport Companies Nothing

By transficient|2014-01-29T22:52:54+11:00January 29th, 2014|News|

If the carbon price is repealed, what impact will its replacement policy – the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) - have on Australian transport emissions? No one will argue with the ERF’s two key design principles for lowest cost and genuine emission reductions – they are surely mandatory features of any climate change policy. Yet how