BCSD Australia

This week's highlights include: * New energy review. Queensland's Productivity Commission has received terms of reference for a new energy inquiry. * Battery changes. A voluntary battery stewardship scheme is set to receive ACCC approval for fee and rebate changes, but the scheme still might not last. * PFAS

This week's highlights include: * Clean energy woes. Numerous organisations have criticised a Queensland Bill that puts new hurdles in the way of clean energy project assessments. * New ACCC guidance. The ACCC is planning to release new guidance on 'emissions-related claims'. * Special case pleas. ASIC has started

This week's highlights include: * 'Relatively high risk'. The NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer has assessed the risk of interruptions to the NSW energy market over the next 12 months. * 'Shorter than a jam roll'. NSW councils in REZ areas have complained to a parliamentary

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.