Browsing: Built environment

The Victorian Government will introduce a bill mandating that the State cut greenhouse gas emissions to 20% below 2000 levels by 2020, give its EPA new powers to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and create a green carbon offsets scheme, says its long-awaited climate change white paper.

• Labor sets out details of $1 billion green retrofit scheme
  
• Labor to tighten EEO, NGERS screws on power stations
  
• How ALP's business 'reward' scheme would work
  
• Vehicle CO₂ emission standards on the horizon
  
• Solar industry slams Labor for stripping funds from flagship scheme

• National recycling scheme targets mercury in lights
  
• Garrett rules out revisiting greenhouse trigger
  
• Sydney outlines sustainability progress
  
• Report to G8 outlines international approaches to energy efficiency
  
• Assessment streamlining calls 'over-simplistic': ANEDO
  
• New guide for Victorian estuary managers

Good Environmental Choice Australia (GECA) has become the fourth product certification scheme to be recognised under the Green Building Council of Australia's new assessment framework.

• Tasmania flags water quality policy changes
  
• Vale Peter Szental, energy efficiency pioneer
  
• Federal Government tops up funding for 'green infrastructure' scheme

The Government today dumped its troubled Green Loans scheme and announced a replacement Green Start program.

Congestion pricing in urban areas is 'inevitable' and dealing with transport congestion offers 'the greatest opportunity' to improve national productivity, says an Infrastructure Report released today that also deals with renewable generation and water reform.

A Western Australian program to cut energy use in Government agencies by 12% achieved only a 0.1% reduction, resulting in about $50 million of wasted energy expenditure, the state's Auditor-General has found.

• Asbestos dumping costs truck operator $133,000
  
• Green building credits revised for stormwater, transport
  
• Energy ministers consulting on air conditioner efficiency standards
  
• Poll: 65% think Labor and Coalition no different on climate

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