South Australia's EPA will use its environmental licensing powers to ensure businesses properly consider climate risks, says the state government's new five-year climate action plan.
ISPT, which manages a $19 billion property portfolio for industry super funds, has become carbon neutral without using cheap international carbon credits, and plans to create and sell its own offsets.
The ACCC has given Boral until Friday to respond to concerns raised with the agency over the company's bid to secure exclusive rights to waste fly-ash from a Queensland coal-fired power station.
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.
Leading Australian banks, insurers and asset owners, in conjunction with climate scientists, have developed new guidelines on assessing physical climate risk and disclosing its financial impact.