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• GM crops an export boon, says ABARE
  
• Auto industry review seeks feedback on travel-based taxes
  
• Deloitte to advise on NT's climate policy
  
• South Australia to introduce new water heater standards
  
• Victorian regulator proposes regional water price increases

• Federal Court rejects EPBC Act challenge to Port Phillip dredging
  
• Garnaut looks forward to 'turning point'
  
• Online Clean Development Mechanism rulebook launched
  
• Productivity Commission calls for urban water review
  
• Supermarket chain supports bag levy

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and state and territory leaders will finalise a comprehensive climate framework in October, yesterday's COAG meeting agreed.



COAG also set out a timetable for reform of environmental approval and assessment processes, endorsed a memorandum of understanding on Murray-Darling Basin management as a precursor to an intergovernmental agreement and agreed to look for ways to ease the regulatory burden on oil and gas exploration and production companies.

From Queensland to Aceh – 'avoided deforestation' project gets certification * Carbon Disclosure Project expands to cover ASX200 * Auditor General says there is 'little evidence' to prove key land programs are delivering



* Victorian minister quizzed on hazardous waste landfill * National Water Commission calls for coordinated approach to water capture

Only 2% of large businesses confident of their emissions data * ACF says company cars set to guzzle $2 billion a year in tax revenue, urges federal 'green' Budget * Woolies and grocery association contemplate carbon labelling * Allens findings on Gunns mill 'not credible', say researchers *



Regulator praises Sydney Water's conservation efforts * Major economies meeting to air concerns on 50% target, as Bush flags US$2 billion clean technology fund * U.S. watchdog agency urged to look at carbon offset claims *

Court orders Abigroup to pay $20,000 to NSW department * WWF sets out 2008 agenda * OneSteel set to sub-licence waste plastic technology * Major carbon capture cost reductions on the horizon * Melbourne Water sets out drought impacts and climate risks

Queensland outlines proposed offsets policy and offsets exchange; (with video) Rudd releases YouTube climate ad; ’Solar assist’ the most promising high temperature solar thermal option; Sugar mill fined over effluent breaches.

The EIS for Queensland’s proposed 153,000ML Traveston Dam “has clearly determined that Traveston Crossing is not only an appropriate site for a dam [it] is the best site in south-east Queensland for a dam,” Premier Anna Bligh told Parliament yesterday.

Federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull today gave Gunns the go-ahead for its controversial pulp mill in Tasmania, but with new conditions that would allow maximum effluent concentrations for dioxins and other substances to be altered.