Innovative industrial control technologies and automation IT will be key to leveraging potential Australian carbon trading schemes into business benefits, according to Rockwell Automation Australia.

Current research into a physical phenomenon discovered two centuries ago may hold the key to meeting future energy demands and reducing global warming.

Web hosting company, ilisys has claimed that it is the first web hosting company of its kind to achieve carbon neutrality in Australia.

Entries for Innovic’s Next Big Thing Award 2007 close 2 March.

A technology services group will implement a program to cut its greenhouse gas emissions.

The Brussels conference will mark the launch of the Alcoa Foundation Global Conservation and Sustainability Network - a platform for future collaboration and more informed decision making on sustainability issues by industry, governments and communities around the world.

Australasian companies need to look harder at getting involved in low carbon projects in developing countries, according to a discussion paper released by Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM).

The UK and Australian governments are joining forces to propel their two countries into the forefront of an expected huge world market for carbon capture and storage.

The 3rd annual Australian Water Summit will be held 2-3 April at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre.

The Australian environment industry has entered a new era with the birth of EcoForum, a company with a mission to foster the development of the contamination remediation sector, and the Australian Land & Groundwater Association (AL&GA), an association to cover this previously under-represented sector.

The premium for processing aggregate with glass cullet over conventional mineral aggregate is around $2 per tonne but this extra cost isn’t recognised in most tenders, according to a costs benefit analysis funded by the Glass Packaging Forum.

Primary schools students across Australia are being given the opportunity to participate in an international awareness campaign on sustainable development, with the winning Australian class invited to send two class representatives and their teacher to Paris, all expenses paid, to participate in a special series of events during World Sustainability week in June 2007.

In the most comprehensive water survey ever, Australians are being asked what they would be prepared to do to save water.

Enersave Australia, a joint venture of specialist engineering and manufacturing companies, Enersave Engineering Systems of Malaysia and local Australian company, Steri-flow Filtration Systems, has been established to service the growing Australian market demand for high-quality water and wastewater solutions.

The EnviroAnalysis 2007 Conference will be held for the first time in the Southern Hemisphere, and it will take place in Wellington, New Zealand, 7–9 February.