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• Clean Energy Regulator sets out new compliance priorities
  
• Vehicle fuel efficiency standards on the way: Bowen
  
• Commbank launches green loans for agriculture

Reporting scope 3 emissions through NGER should be mandatory, and waste management needs much greater attention, according to a new decarbonisation report from Infrastructure Partnerships Australia.

• Ai Group backs robust Victorian emissions target, criticises EV tax
  
• Prince Philip played key role in Australian Conservation Foundation
  
• Batteries better, cheaper than peaking gas: Clean Energy Council

The world will find an injection against COVID, but there is "no vaccine against climate change", former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres told an Australian briefing today.

Technological solutions to climate change have become economically viable faster than anticipated, but greater efforts are needed to rapidly deploy them, concludes a new analysis from ClimateWorks.

The NSW government's plan to put the state on track to net-zero emissions will encourage good performers and expose bad ones, while leveraging government procurement and assets to an unprecedented extent.

The ACT government's new strategy to achieve net zero emissions will involve a phase-out of gas, and won't rely on carbon offsets.

• NSW legislative changes needed after climate ruling, says EDO
  
• New landscapes bill creates 'Green Adelaide' board
  
• Building regulations need review: Green Cross

• Safeguard Mechanism creates 'serious risk' of rising emissions, says AGL
  
• Australia's emissions 'highest on record', says carbon consultancy
  
• Origin on track for 25% renewables by 2020
  
• Australian property companies back new global 'zero carbon' pledge

• Victoria to speed quarry approvals
  
• New ACT bill brings forward 'net zero' emissions deadline
  
• Check with insurer when switching refrigerants, department cautions