BCSD Australia

Highlights in this week's issue include: * Beyond hydrogen. NSW is considering a wider scope for a certificate scheme that will initially only target green hydrogen. * Renewables Bill. A Queensland parliamentary committee is holding hearings on the government's renewables Bill. * Streamlined approvals. Tasmania will implement a new

Highlights in this week's issue include: * What to expect. A list of key federal developments coming up in 2024. * Esso seeks CCS approval. ESSO has made a referral for a CCS project that would be a competitor to the Victorian government-led CarbonNet. * Climate audit. The federal Auditor-General has

Highlights in this week's issue include: * Phase-out Biodiversity Conservation Fund, review recommends. The NSW government has been urged to phase-out arrangements that let developers pay into a fund, instead of buying biodiversity credits. * New recycling grants. Queensland is offering grants of up to $2.5 million for high-tech

Highlights include: * Voice of authority. The Climate Change Authority says the ACCU scheme should help underpin engineered carbon removals, and it wants public disclosure of NGER emissions at the facility level. * 'Clearly unacceptable'. Minister Tanya Plibersek has rejected a proposal for a facility to assemble offshore wind farm

Highlights include: * Biomethane opportunity. Biomethane could substitute for up to half of Victoria's existing industrial fossil gas use, says the state government. * Environmental assessment overhaul. WA will make sure state assessments of Safeguard-covered facilities avoid "unnecessary duplication". * New CRCs. A new Cooperative Research Centre on net-zero

Highlights include: * Off-track on waste. Waste targets won't be met, and that has ramifications for how we predict landfill methane emissions, says a report to DCCEEW. * Nature market good to go. Australia will have a legislatively-backed market for trading biodiversity certificates, but they can't be used