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Things aren’t looking much better for Labor after its carbon pricing announcement: voters believe the scheme will be bad for them and won’t work.

There is good reason why the government did not release the details of its carbon pricing package before the weekend.

Our hung parliament presented, for the first time in living memory, an opportunity to deal with the substantive policy issues ignored in the campaign, writes Giles Parkinson of Climate Spectator.

A document that outlines 14,000 conversations about climate change from across the nation says that the majority of Australians want a stronger emphasis on renewable energy and support businesses being held responsible for their pollution, reports Amber Jamieson.

There is no shortage of new competitors keen on grabbing a share of game-changing technologies such as smart meters, smart appliances and electric vehicles, writes Giles Parkinson, of Climate Spectator.

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is often seen as coal’s redeeming feature and saviour, and governments have spent millions on it. But if it’s so effective, why did the last budget cut over $600 million from CCS projects? asks Dan Cass.

In the first of a series of post-budget reports, Fiona Armstrong and Laura Eadie from the Centre for Policy Development explore options to encourage innovation and roll out less mature renewable energy technologies.

Relying on the economic demise of others to keep petrol prices low at home isn’t really good news, writes Dr Michelle Zeibots, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney

Energy entrepreneurs across the globe are not waiting for politicians to get their acts together on climate change. Check out this video gallery which showcases individuals whose ideas are creating new ways of producing renewable energy - plus a few dollars along the way.

The ETS looks like it is staying on the shelf, much to the chagrin of green groups. Never mind, Labor should instead tap into former PM Ben Chifley’s nation-building mythology and consider a large-scale renewable energy project, writes Leigh Ewbank.

Bio-sequestration has enormous potential in the form of iron seeding of oceans and charcoal in soils.

This year’s Budget is smoke and mirrors on the renewable energy front. Everyone gets a share, but this is all peanut money, writes Tony Kevin.

Once again, the funds allocated to renewable energy, public transport and energy efficiency pale into insignificance next to the tens of billions to roads and the military writes Australian Greens Deputy Leader Senator Christine Milne.