The Queensland government has updated its environmental laws by including provisions that provide early certainty on clearly unacceptable projects, greater public consultation, and increased accountability for directors and officers of companies that cause environmental harm.
Highlights include ERF auction updates; Renewable project consultations; UN green trade update. Jobs include roles with Austroads, Virgin Australia and RSM.
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has introduced to federal parliament the government’s Nature Repair Market Bill that will facilitate the issuing and trading of certificates generated through land, marine or fauna regeneration or conservation projects.
Australia needs “multiple shots on goal” from technologies including batteries, pumped hydro, green hydrogen, solar thermal and a range of developing science-based energy storage processes if it is to meet its 2050 net zero goal, according to CSIRO chief executive Larry Marshall.
Shareholder activist group Market Forces has lodged a formal complaint with ASIC over the way the bank presented its climate change advisory resolutions to shareholders.
Federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen and the Greens have agreed on amendments to the Safeguard Mechanism including a requirement for net zero scope 1 emissions for new gas projects, separate methane and nitrous oxide reporting, and mandatory explanations for high offset use.
