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• Melbourne introduces draft sustainable building standards
  
• CBA receives $125 million in CEFC financing for Green Home Loan
  
• ACT plans to ban new gas connections
  
• RAA begins South Australian EV charger rollout

• CEFC backs discount decarbonisation loans, with recycling focus
  
• Plibersek awards largest grant under organics recycling scheme
  
• Fuel efficiency standards failure costing $5.9 billion: Australia Institute

• Industry's path to clean energy PPAs to be made easier
  
• New organic waste funding on offer
  
• Potential for large cuts in vehicle carbon emissions: Grattan Institute
  
• Aldi lagging in tackling single-use plastics

• ARENA to launch $43m industrial energy program
  
• Queensland allocates $60m to boost carbon and environmental markets
  
• Transport agencies launch sustainability program

• Queensland Budget locks in $500m renewables fund
  
• ACT introduces plastics bill, Queensland may ban more plastic items
  
• More than 50 electric buses to join Sydney fleet, thousands more to come

The federal government will tip an extra $1.8 billion into climate action over 10 years, with a stronger emphasis on hard-to-abate sectors, hydrogen, transport, energy productivity, soil carbon and CCS.

• CEFC backs $1bn rental housing investment fund
  
• Woodside registers new ERF project
  
• NEM emissions to fall 41% below 2005 levels by 2030
  
• New data shows no reduction in national emissions

A Macquarie Group entity will develop emissions targets and strategies for assets including airports, a desalination plant and an energy distributor, with the help of $100 million from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.

• New data shows Australia lags Europe by 45% on vehicle CO2
  
• Big jump in solar installations by industry
  
• Frasers' shopping centre to be energy-positive
  
• Supply chain factors in play as canola company switches to biomass
  
• Bioplastics company expects rapid sales growth

• Discount loans of up to $200,000 on offer for low-emissions vehicles
  
• Major SA renewables project moves forward
  
• NSW offers $8.5m to support low-emissions coal