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• Fires affect swathe of NSW's conserved private land
  
• Deadline for EBPC review submissions extended
  
• $100m in carbon grants on offer from next week

• Queensland Parliament backs pollution notification bill
  
• Bill must heed biodiversity collapse and climate change, warns SA Labor
  
• Queensland names first carbon farming grant recipients

The Palaszczuk government has started work on a $500 million fund to support land-based carbon offset projects, and has introduced a new bill to tighten controls on clearing.

A new form of environmental credit could play an important role in improving Great Barrier Reef water quality and expanding the reach of carbon credit projects in Queensland.

AGL has contracted to buy carbon credits created from tree plantings in Western Australia that have been certified under a well-known international offsets scheme.

• First state government projects cleared to earn carbon credits
  
• 'Waste to energy' company wins right to earn credits
  
• Top companies send climate message to Canberra and business peers
  
• Use rates and stamp duty to encourage building efficiency: Study

• CO2 Group CEO departs
  
• Victoria finalises 'energy from waste' guidelines
  
• Hunt releases draft 'green army' provider rules