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Australia needs a RET-style certificate scheme to support the partial substitution of renewable hydrocarbons for diesel, avgas and bunker fuels, according to the Grattan Institute.

• Ndevr gains ERF approval for biomass project
  
• CEFC helps Melbourne fast-track upgrades, LED lights
  
• Victoria to amend efficiency scheme lighting rules

A CE Daily weekly snapshot for ISO 14001 system managers and environmental and carbon professionals (open access).

• Fund backs first owners corporation office block retrofit
  
• New head for Greenpeace
  
• Farmers and foresters surveyed on bioenergy
  
• E3 program explains legislative changes

• COAG officials leave efficiency goals out of draft building standard
  
• NSW reviews BioBanking scheme
  
• NZ to ban discharge of greenhouse gas refrigerants
  
• Virgin trials biodiesel for ground equipment

• Green skills review complete by March, says Gillard
  
• $805 per tonne of abatement under NSW ethanol scheme: Greens
  
• We'll be cheapest form of renewables by 2020, geothermal company says
  
• Melbourne office building retrofit cuts energy use by 65%
  
• UK Government issues 'four degrees' map

• Rudd boosts $500 million green car fund by $800 million
  
• Study says sustainable consumption key to halving Victoria's emissions by 2020
  
• Tasmania reviews water quality policy

Professor Ross Garnaut this morning handed to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd an all-embracing set of policy proposals to combat climate change. Garnaut warned that a failure by this generation to deal with climate change 'would haunt humanity until the end of time'.

It's Labor's first commitment period – with the Rudd government last night setting out where its climate change and environment cash will be spent over 2008-2012. New Budget climate measures will get $341.6 million in 2008-09 and a total of $2.3 billion over 2007-08 to 2011-12.



Meanwhile, Treasurer Wayne Swan says the review of the tax system – due to report by the end of 2009 – will 'look at the role to be played by environmental taxes'.

CE Daily looks at where the money will go and guides you through the maze of Budget papers.

The head of the International Energy Agency told last week's major economies meeting in Hawaii a "CO2 incentive" of US$200 a tonne would be needed to deliver a 50% cut in emissions by 2050, the IEA revealed yesterday.



Meanwhile, the head of Australia's mining union, Tony Maher, has canvassed the creation of a new climate change pressure group and has urged resource companies to massively boost their spending on carbon capture and storage.