Browsing: Adaptation, science

Businesses aren't giving sufficient attention to climate adaptation, cautions new Energetics chief executive Mary Stewart.

• QBE burnishes sustainability credentials ahead of AGM
  
• Victoria 'the capital of complaints' for wind farms, says Commissioner
  
• Federal climate policy putting Australians at risk, warn emergency services chiefs

Victoria's top sustainability advisor has warned that the state's biodiversity is in decline on multiple fronts, in a new 'state of the environment' report.

Proponents will have to buy water quality offsets if their developments increase sediment or nutrient levels in Great Barrier Reef catchments, under a new Queensland bill.

• Company and director fined $72,000 for waste offences
  
• Agriculture ministers to hold climate change summit
  
• New study quantifies energy efficiency workforce

A Royal Commission has accused the Murray-Darling Basin Authority of unlawfully ignoring climate change and recommended more water buybacks for the environment.

Limiting warming to no more than 1.5 degrees would have far-reaching benefits that won't arise if the planet warms by two degrees, according to a report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

• State raises concerns about low-quality NPI data
  
• $100 million waste grant scheme open for applications
  
• State government promises 10,000 half-price batteries
  
• Councils win climate adaptation grants

Labor and the Greens have called for coastal retreat strategies, post-construction risk reviews of infrastructure, and liability exemptions for councils, in a new Senate climate change report.

• Waste company seeks approval for $11 million biodigester
  
• Victoria to review sea-level rise planning benchmarks
  
• Nominations open for sustainable infrastructure awards