Browsing: Built environment

Regulatory and planning barriers are hindering deployment of technologies that can be the foundation-stone for sustainable urban precincts, say the Green Building Council of Australia and VicUrban, partners on a new sustainability rating framework for these developments.

• No need to lock in Australia's trading scheme now, UN climate chief says
  
• Don't forget who delivered you victory, green bans warrior warns Labor
  
• McKinsey study finds scope for huge U.S. energy efficiency gains

• Xstrata stalling on Mount Isa lead, says lawyer
  
• Forum failure an indictment of Rudd approach, Greens say
  
• Report warns of ’conflict’ between environment and safety in oil and gas projects
  
• Garrett gazettes ozone protection regulations
  
• Energy officials take second shot at smart meter rules
  
• Queensland Government launches recycling policy for building materials
  
• Gore, Pachauri and Flannery to speak to Sydney youth summit

• New Zealand consults on 2020 target
  
• Governments back national forum on local-level power generation
  
• Growth in SA wind power must be backed by network investment, report says
  
• Green Building Council releases new rating tool
  
• Gore set to fly in for regional summit
  
• Oxfam climate change report warns of food shortages

• Green Building Council rethinks treatment of product certification schemes
  
• Wong registers updated NGERS determination
  
• EPA Victoria unveils waste guidance as new regulations kick in
  
• UK committee opposes recognising forest credits in EU ETS

• NGERS reporting workshops on offer
  
• From Melbourne to Mexico –landmark deal to create credits from lighting
  
• Fix transport spending bias, alliance says

Coalition ETS spokesman Andrew Robb commits the Coalition to clarifying its carbon policy proposals by the time Senate debate on the CPRS bills takes place in June and says the Pearce Review, released this morning, is a 'wake-up call' for the Rudd Government.

• Aviva Corp makes its case for $1bn 'carbon capture-ready' WA coal plant
  
• CEDA offers sustainability training for senior executives
  
• 'A clear and present danger', Clinton tells major economies (with video)
  
• 'The road to 2050 is lined with inefficient buildings': WBCSD

• 'Retrogreening' a jobs boon, says Green Building Council study
  
• Targets 'an insult', Tim Costello tells Senate inquiry
  
• Obama: time for a new energy revolution

Governments have failed to stimulate emissions reductions in the sector that can deliver least cost abatement, says Lend Lease sustainability chief Maria Atkinson in the first of an occasional CE Daily series of opinion pieces.