Syngenta Australia’s Somersby vegetable seed warehouse has become the first cold store facility to receive a 6-star NABERS energy rating after introducing a range of sustainability initiatives.
Downer has won a Victorian Premier's sustainability award for its recycled-content asphalt, with other winners including Melbourne Health and the state's renewable energy auction scheme.
Highlights include a new mine rehabilitation bill, several court rulings, and new grant opportunities. Jobs include head of energy strategy in Victoria, head of waste licensing in WA, and a green hydrogen role.
A clean energy finance leader, a climate scientist, an energy economist, and a leading environmental bureaucrat are among those awarded Australia Day Honours.
Victoria's top sustainability award has gone to an online marketplace for surplus food, with honours also going to four councils involved in a renewable energy bulk buy.