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The Victorian Government today announced plans to extend state-wide a statutory financing mechanism for building upgrades, while similar legislation in South Australia is yet to clear State Parliament.

• Doubling of energy productivity worth almost $60bn
  
• New $400m trust to undertake office upgrades
  
• Ramp-up of LNG projects ends decline in demand for power

• Tasmania issues new energy strategy
  
• Savanna projects lose out in first ERF auction
  
• SA urges Abbott to adopt 19% target for 2020
  
• SA Opposition wavers on 'building upgrade' finance bill

Drivers will have to share the road 'with a lot of different devices', a transport data analyst told a Melbourne conference today, while new IEA data shows a boom in electric vehicle sales.

Australia can achieve net zero emissions by 2050 and traditional industry would still prosper, according to a detailed analysis released today by ClimateWorks and the ANU.

Victoria's Upper House has agreed to end one program that encourages action on energy efficiency, but is now considering expanding another.

• NSW Health failing to act on energy use: Audit report
  
• Qantas backs call for global regime on aviation emissions
  
• Ten years on: What Green Star buildings have delivered

New reports from an Australian group representing funds that manage more than $900 billion warn oil and gas reserves might have to remain unexploited and urge investors to seek climate change risk assessments from owners of large mines.

• Victoria backs time-of-use power pricing
  
• Axe fossil subsidies and power plant free permits, says Milne
  
• Energy efficiency pays off for Crown
  
• AGIC and AWA to host sustainable water infrastructure seminar

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