Browsing: Built environment

• EPA seeks comment on WA uranium proposal
  
• Wong announces tougher regulations for solar installers
  
• ACT sets out solar access policies

Investa Property Group has reduced the emissions and water intensity of its managed office portfolio for the eighth consecutive year, says the company's 2009 Sustainability Report.

• Senate inquiry into RET amendments now due Tuesday
  
• Aldi joins 'carbon reduction label' scheme
  
• Governments now embracing green buildings: report

• 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

The troubled rollout of some of the Rudd Government's climate change programs underlines the benefits of delivery through an external entity like the Carbon Trust, its chairman, Robert Hill said today.

• NSW court rejects Walker Corp's land clearing defence
  
• No role for councils in mandating building sustainability: Victorian inquiry
  
• Meatworks and winemakers big winners in climate grants round

Building stadiums with 'living roofs', subsidising public transport and encouraging fans to watch sport together at the pub are among the measures the sport sector can take to tackle climate change, says chief scientist Professor Penny Sackett.

• Carr announces $18 million in green building grants
  
• WA court hands out $40,000 fine for illegal clearing
  
• Ai Group conducts survey on CPRS delay

• New green rating tool out for factories
  
• NGER changes out for comment
  
• Jon Dee releases sustainability and small business book
  
• New report issued on Indigenous Australians and climate change

Victoria's Budget shows a touted $60 million spend on greening government buildings will involve expenditure of just $50 million over the next four years, while the Northern Territory's Budget boosts funding for its EPA and paves the way for a container deposit scheme.