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ESG Snapshot: Issue 40

ESG Snapshot: Issue 40

Highlights in this week's issue include: * Greenwashing hearing. Treasury, ASIC, the ACCC, and many others will today appear before a Senate inquiry hearing into greenwashing. * Companies disclose climate progress. Twenty five large emitters have disclosed information on their climate change pledges and progress, through the federal CERT program.

ESG Snapshot: Issue 39

ESG Snapshot: Issue 39

Highlights in this week's issue include: * Triple A. The Climate Change Authority says it will propose a 2035 emissions target that is ambitious, achievable, and advantageous to Australia. * Good, better, best. The Climate Leaders Coalition has released a guide to internal carbon pricing, which sets out three potential

ESG Snapshot: Issue 38

ESG Snapshot: Issue 38

Highlights in this week's issue include: * Four federal bills. The federal government has introduced four climate and environment bills. * Three inquiries. Key parliamentary inquiries have ended in Queensland and NSW, and a federal inquiry has started into a treaty with climate components. * EPBC reform progress. A Senate committee

ESG Snapshot: Issue 37

ESG Snapshot: Issue 37

Highlights in this week's issue include: * Nothing 'dodgy'. The Greens have secured an amendment to Victoria's climate and renewable targets Bill. * Hit the gas. In a national first, Greenpower has certified a Jemena renewable gas project. * 'The first step'. The NSW Parliament

ESG Snapshot: Issue 36

ESG Snapshot: Issue 36

Highlights in this week's issue include: * New climate and penalty powers. A new Bill empowers NSW's EPA to enter into net-zero agreements, while separate provisions toughen penalties and bring in 'name and shame' provisions for environmental offences. * Faster renewables approvals. A Victorian pathway that

ESG Snapshot: Issue 35

ESG Snapshot: Issue 35

Highlights in this week's issue include: * Senate scrutiny. A Senate committee has launched an inquiry into Australia's waste and recycling policies. * Double bill. The Victorian government has introduced a Bill on offshore wind, and another on transmission infrastructure. * Circularity laggard. A new CSIRO report says Australia&

ESG Snapshot: Issue 34

ESG Snapshot: Issue 34

Highlights in this week's issue include: * Costing carbon in the Big Build. Business cases for public infrastructure should incorporate a NSW-style carbon cost of $123, says Infrastructure Victoria. * Rating clean energy providers. Climate and energy ministers have agreed to prioritise the introduction of a rating scheme for renewable