BCSD Australia

This week's highlights include: * Extinction inquiries. In an Australian first, an SA Biodiversity Bill requires an extinction inquiry if certain species become extinct. * Reopen for business. If NSW can't get its waste-to-landfill rates down, it will consider reopening some closed landfills. * Offsets apology. EnergyAustralia has issued

This week's highlights include: * Safeguard not enough. The Safeguard by itself won't lead to deployment of all the coal industry's low-cost abatement opportunities, says a new report. * Missed chance.The Productivity Commission's interim report on circularity misses some big opportunities, says a

This week's highlights include: * It's back. The WA government let its 2023 climate change Bill lapse - now a Greens MLC has reintroduced it. * Standardised and harder. A Queensland Bill would standardise solar farm assessments - and make assessments of wind and solar farms more difficult.

This week's highlights include: * Sustainable finance cooperation. The Australian Sustainable Finance Institute is on track to secure an important authorisation from the ACCC. * Stewardship law slammed. The federal product stewardship law is fundamentally flawed, a key recycling body has told the Productivity Commission. * First Safeguard insights. New data

This week's highlights include: * Targets review. Queensland's new Productivity Commission will review the state's legislated emissions and clean energy targets. * Insulation subsidies. Victoria's energy upgrade scheme will soon start supporting household installations of insulation. * Waste refusal. EPA Victoria has refused Veolia'

This week's highlights include: * Waste target miss. Victoria won't meet its 2030 waste diversion target without new waste to energy infrastructure, suggests a new audit report. * ACCU developments. DCCEEW has provided an update on a proposed innovative new ACCU method. * Electrification. Greater participation in aggregator programs