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A court has found a Stockland proposal for a major residential development could harm a significant wetland, and has criticised ecological evidence given on the company's behalf.

The Queensland government has named five new carbon projects that will receive additional payments in recognition of their biodiversity or social co-benefits.

Carbon offsets company CO2 Australia has emerged as the biggest winner in round one of Queensland's Land Restoration Fund, receiving $33.63 million out of $91 million awarded.

Carbon abatement from projects with major environmental and social benefits will be purchased at more than twice the ERF auction price, under contracts being negotiated by the Queensland government.

Queensland's Parliament has passed three environmental bills with bipartisan support.

A court has refused a claim by a farming family for almost $700,000 in damages after a gas company's environmental scientists reported finding a vulnerable species of tree on their property.

• Queensland backs new ERF methods for blue carbon
  
• Grants of up to $1.1m on offer for circuit-breaker energy and environment fixes
  
• Manage fire dangers or risk 'lost carbon' make-up orders: Offset providers warned

In an EPBC decision that demonstrates impacts on bushfire-affected threatened species will receive close scrutiny, a proposed Epuron wind farm has been declared "clearly unacceptable".

• Fires affect swathe of NSW's conserved private land
  
• Deadline for EBPC review submissions extended
  
• $100m in carbon grants on offer from next week

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