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Importers and major consumers of refrigerants face a review of legislative controls that will take into account international efforts to phase-out harmful gases.

• OECD backs carbon pricing
  
• Lack of policy support hindering CCS
  
• New Green Star tool targets existing buildings

• 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

• Bill Clinton's sustainability 'tattoo test' (with video)
  
• Sustainability lessons from the London Olympics (with video)
  
• Three lessons for business from Rio+20: KPMG's Yvo de Boer

• 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

• State schemes still unnecessary if carbon price goes: Coalition
  
• Environmental regulators explore 'proceeds of crime' options
  
• Retrofit payoff: building bought for $7.95m, sold for $12.25m
  
• Australia on track to meet Kyoto emissions commitment
  
• Tasmania urged to prioritise Climate Council tasks

• Government delays green tax breaks scheme
  
• Expect 'modest' abatement from forests and soils, CSIRO tells Senate
  
• NZ wind farm decision-makers obliged to consider 'national interest'
  
• Don't scapegoat renewables, Climate Institute says
  
• Major emitters to meet next week

• Jail sentence 'excessive', environment court rules
  
• NT to oppose Paladin Energy uranium mine
  
• China explores regional emissions trading; tax measures
  
• Productivity Commission releases urban water reform paper
  
• U.S. EPA's Clean Air Act turns 40

• Third green building certification scheme approved
  
• Southeast Asia needs clean energy incentives: IEA
  
• New guidance on wastewater mixing zones

• WA program delivers major cuts in business water use
  
• AEMO: principles to remove barriers to decentralised energy systems
  
• New international alliance targets illegal wood trade
  
• Most shoppers won't pay more to be green: survey
  
• Mayors urge action on renewables, decentralised energy