BCSD Australia

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

This week's highlights include: * NT axes 2030 target. The NT government has ditched the former Territory government's renewables target. * Greens' climate litigation Bill. A Bill proposed by the Greens in the last week of Parliament would have allowed those affected by cyclones and floods, as

This week's highlights include: * Stewardship law. A landmark NSW Bill proposes penalties of up to $880,000 for breaching mandatory product stewardship requirements. * Approvals bypass law. The NT Assembly has passed a Bill that allows projects to be approved, even if they don't comply with other

This week's highlights include: * Queensland backflip. Two months after the Qld government suspended the assessment of a huge wind project, it has ordered that a planning decision be expedited. * 'Southern Cross' climate COP. In an open letter, the president of this year's climate COP