BCSD Australia

This week's highlights include: * Working together. The ACCC has released guidance on how companies can cooperate on sustainability without breaching competition law. * More plastic waste. The recovery rate for plastics has decreased slightly, and the amount of plastic waste has increased significantly, new data shows. * More ACCU information.

This week's highlights include: * Waste to energy. Victoria plans to raise its cap on the amount of waste that can be processed by waste to energy facilities. * Circularity. The federal government has released a national circularity framework, and a ministerial advisory group has called for a circularity law.

This week's highlights include: * APRA update. APRA has issued an update on its work with insurers on climate risk. * Don't look at trading. The panel reviewing the operation of the wholesale electricity market has been instructed not to consider carbon trading. * Santos registers ACCU projects. Santos

This week's highlights include: * Federal bills. Federal Parliament has passed several key climate bills, but progress on EPBC reforms has stalled. * FOGO mandate. NSW has introduced a bill to mandate organic waste collections from homes and businesses. * Coal exit. New federal arrangements to manage the exit of coal

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