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• Savanna burning ACCUs at premium as carbon market eases
  
• World Green Building Council pushes for tougher EU emission rules
  
• CCS pricing doesn’t tell full picture: study

Lighting upgrade projects will no longer be allowed to register under the ERF to earn credits, following changes announced yesterday by Energy and Emissions Reduction Minister Angus Taylor.

• ERF method likely to be revoked
  
• Developer ordered to pay $0.5 million for failing to investigate contamination
  
• NSW implements Minimata Convention controls on mercury

• Spot carbon price now more than double 2020 level
  
• WA Bill will make Forest Products Commission a carbon trader
  
• City of Melbourne targets embodied emissions in construction materials

The ERF contract for a project that was to deliver 2.4 million tonnes of abatement has been terminated after part-fulfilment, and the Regulator has opted not to seek damages.

• Soil carbon dominates new ERF projects
  
• COVID has little impact on EPA's compliance performance
  
• Pandemic recovery: NSW to spend $300m to buy LED lighting for schools

• Major ERF contract cancelled
  
• Key gap in efforts to tackle hard-to-abate sectors, warns Energetics
  
• Lendlease commits to using 100% net zero steel by 2050
  
• AGL applies for Liddell battery EPBC approval, despite project pause

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.

• New ERF auction draws sluggish response from carbon offset providers
  
• Growing local government interest in net zero targets: New ClimateWorks study
  
• Bandt to fight for 'green new deal', while Joyce's Nationals tilt fails

• NEG a great concept with a poor target, says BNEF
  
• Shopping centre owner secures $200m CEFC loan
  
• Climate change a global threat, says Defence white paper