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• Lighting upgrade company suspended from Victorian program
  
• New energy efficiency standards for ACT rental properties
  
• TNFD gains its first Australian non-government funder
  
• HESTA commits to $100 million investment in green hydrogen projects

• Bowen poised to declare six offshore wind zones
  
• NSW facing "biodiversity credits crunch": Clayton Utz
  
• Climate modelling expert to head federal industry department
  
• ACT introduces Bill to phase-out new residential gas connections

The ACT government should set mandatory embodied carbon limits for the material and equipment that it buys, according to a report commissioned by ACT Minister for Emissions Reductions, Shane Rattenbury.

In an Australian first, the ACT Budget has put a price on the economic harm caused by greenhouse gas emissions, with the aim of raising funds for decarbonisation.

The ACT government has launched a market sounding on its plans to procure at least 250MW of large-scale battery storage.

ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr has taken the new portfolio of Minister for Climate Action in the Territory's new Labor-Greens government.

Neoen and GPG have emerged as the successful bidders in the ACT government's latest renewables reverse auction, with power contracted at much lower prices than previously.

• Largest listed industrial property group aims for net-zero by 2025
  
• Sustainability certification scheme rejects VicForests claim of bias
  
• ACT Government to gain powers to ban plastics from events

• EV fleet owner to be paid for grid services in ARENA-backed trial
  
• WA offers $15m for tyres and plastics processing, licenses recycled-content bitumen plant
  
• International investor takes majority stake in Queensland solar farm