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• Carbon transparency scheme 2.0 on the way
  
• Climate Change Authority calls in CSIRO for sequestration stocktake
  
• HESTA strengthens portfolio emissions target, boosts scrutiny of four companies

• WA awards fertiliser company a $2m hydrogen grant, offers more
  
• Federal and NT emissions and energy agreement to focus on Beetaloo gas
  
• Australia joins climate risk pricing coalition

The federal government is still off-track to meet its 2030 target, but the gap has closed markedly, new emissions projections show.

Australia needs a permanent resilience and recovery agency, and land-use planning must take better account of flooding and bushfire risks, according to the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements.

Warren Entsch, the Morrison government's envoy for the Great Barrier Reef, is pushing key Coalition Ministers to take stronger action on climate change.

The Productivity Commission will examine whether states and territories are adequately considering climate change in their water planning, as part of a new inquiry.

Great Barrier Reef envoy Warren Entsch will seek a national ban on nearly all single-use plastics, and has also warned climate change is an 'existential threat' to the Reef.

• Morrison announces climate resilience review
  
• Natural Carbon targets mid-tier beef producers
  
• New 100MW/150MWh storage battery slated for Queensland

Environment ministers today agreed to phase in waste export bans from 1 July 2020 and made commitments on climate change, environmental assessments, and battery recycling.

• Outlook for Great Barrier Reef 'very poor'
  
• Stalled: Minimal improvement in vehicle emissions intensity, study finds
  
• National emissions rising, new government data confirms