BCSD Australia

This week's highlights include: * Biodiversity offsets overhaul. The NSW Parliament has passed a Bill that will overhaul and strengthen the state's biodiversity offsets scheme. * Planning and climate. A NSW Parliamentary committee has recommended overhauling planning legislation so it pays more regard to climate change. * Energy governance.

This week's highlights include: * Coal Bill. A Bill that will establish national electricity market-wide rules on managing coal in the grid is now before South Australia's parliament. * Storage Bill. The NSW parliament has passed a Bill establishing a new energy storage target. * NT approvals Bill. The

This week's highlights include: * 'Rent-seeking parasite'. Climate Change Authority Chair Matt Kean has provided a blunt appraisal of the nuclear industry to Senate Estimates. * Renewables assessment changes. Queensland Premier David Crisafulli says legislation on assessing renewable energy projects must be amended. * Investment mandates. The mandates for

This week's highlights include: * At the border. If an Australian commodity benefits from a carbon levy on imports, then maybe Safeguard requirements should be changed for that commodity, says a new paper from a government-instigated inquiry. * 3.7 million tonnes. By one estimate, two proposed new ACCU methods

This week's highlights include: * What Queensland's new government has planned. LNP statements to Parliament about recent climate laws give insights into its likely approach. * PFAS. Revised drinking water standards will set new PFAS standards, and a new federally-backed project will pyrolyse biosolids to treat PFAS. * Bigger

This week's highlights include: * Planning bills. New planning bills are before the NSW and Tasmanian parliaments. * Long-term goal. NSW will legislate a new long-duration storage target. * WA's emissions handball. Large projects in WA subject to the Safeguard Mechanism will no longer have their emissions regulated by