A recent agreement between Australia and China to cooperate on climate change could be a tipping point that makes the Coalition’s pledge to repeal the carbon price unachievable. Under the agreement, Australia and China will establish a carbon trading experts group and conduct joint research as China moves towards its own national emissions trading scheme after 2015.

Masdar Institute is a graduate level, world-class research-driven university focused on renewable energy and clean technologies.  Established by the Government of Abu Dhabi with the collaboration of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Institute integrates both theory and practice to incubate a culture of innovation and entrepreneurshi

Victoria's unsustainable reliance on emissions-intense brown coal for electricity is driving research into renewable and clean energy sources. Geothermal energy may offer the answer. Rebecca Scott reports.

Renewable energy sources create new challenges in their safe, reliable and secure transmission.

Algae could change the world. This might sound like quite a feat for such a seemingly simple organism, but according to a group of researchers from The University of Melbourne, algae could play an important role in solving the world’s energy crisis. Emma O’Neill reports.

On Thursday 20 May 2010, the ABC television science program, Catalyst, broadcast this story about green roof research.