Browsing: Built environment

• Tasmania backflips on waste levy
  
• Auditor-General to scrutinise flagship environment programs
  
• 'Buzz' based homes push can cut emissions for less than $1.60 a tonne: report

• Fast-track circular economy plan, review covenant, council urges
  
• Don't rely heavily on waste-to-energy, cautions industrial ecology group
  
• Westpac distances itself from Business Council climate stance
  
• Tribunal orders vehicle refund due to misleading fuel efficiency claim

The international Science-Based Targets initiative has approved emissions reduction targets adopted by Frasers Property Australia for all its building assets.

• EPA issues prevention notices to council and quarry
  
• NT EPA launches waste prosecution
  
• Coca Cola Amatil joins sustainable business group
  
• Super fund achieves carbon neutral certification for six sites
  
• EPA releases new waste collection systems guide

• City of Sydney to buy 100% renewable energy
  
• Federal government delays start of new pollution controls
  
• CarbonNet to establish community reference group

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

• Changes planned for grid safety-net scheme
  
• Ministers back zero-energy buildings
  
• Coalition and Labor reject renters' energy efficiency bill
  
• New energy efficiency advice service planned

• $420 million, Delta-financed pumped-hydro project applies for licence
  
• Adelaide City seeks 10-year renewables deal
  
• Efficiency scheme to subsidise ceiling insulation
  
• Zero emission bus trial for Sydney

• 'Ambitious' expansion plans for building rating scheme
  
• EPA to license channel dredging
  
• CarbonNet prepares to drill test well