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Australia Post's facilities management team has made giant inroads in reducing energy use, singlehandedly delivering more than the organisation-wide target for greenhouse gas abatement in 2010-11.

A new green infrastructure rating tool will help rationalise sustainability demands in tender documents and give project developers confidence that they have comprehensively dealt with environmental issues, says the organisation that developed it.

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A new sustainability rating tool for infrastructure projects can reduce the risk of legal challenges, ensure ACCC green marketing tests are met and serve a useful purpose in tender processes, Clayton Utz partner Nick Thomas said today.

Transport and logistics company Toll Holdings says a carbon price won't have a material effect on its business and aims to reduce its CO2 emissions intensity to 20% below 2009-10 levels by 2020.

Green-star rated buildings, and those with a high NABERS energy rating, deliver higher returns to their owners than less efficient buildings, according to a study of office buildings in Sydney and Canberra.

Research by NAB and ClimateWorks on retail sector energy efficiency opportunities concludes retailers could add an extra 3% to 14% to EBIT – but they would need to boost capital expenditure by about 25% to do it.

A trigeneration network switched on today in Sydney has adopted a commercial fix for a technical problem that has plagued the roll-out of tri-gen units in Australia – and it could prove a better model for Sydney City Council's efforts to deploy the technology, says Investa's Craig Roussac.

The Australian Green Infrastructure Council says its sustainability rating tool, to be trialled mid-year ahead of a 2012 launch, will help investors decide which projects to support and make tender processes cheaper and more equitable.