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The ACF will run two more investor briefing on the James Price Point project next week, reflecting the investment community's growing interest in what environment groups have to say, according to the NGO's economic adviser Simon O'Connor.

• We've got a lot in common, Combet tells super industry
  
• EPA Victoria targeting smaller industrial polluters
  
• How super funds can respond to carbon risk
  
• Grattan Institute wrong and naïve on industry assistance, says AIGN

Growing investor nervousness about carbon exposure is driving Standard & Poor's efforts to incorporate carbon risk analysis into all its credit ratings, with the roll-out beginning next year, says the agency's head of global carbon markets, Michael Wilkins.

• Track record exempts company from water reporting
  
• 'No reason' to suspend Darwin copper shipments
  
• New energy rating scheme for pool pumps
  
• Environment factors 'not fully valued': WBCSD

The Australian Conservation Foundation has asked Australia's corporate watchdog to investigate 'potential breaches of the Trade Practices Act' relating to public statements on the effects of the CPRS made by six major companies.

• Climate Institute and Super Trustees to survey major funds
  
• Charity, Ecos and KPMG urge $11.2 billion program targeting households
  
• NSW environment court fines coal miner $200,000
  
• Tasmania to review water quality policy

• Pension fund divests $1.1 billion stake in Rio Tinto over West Irian mine
  
• Energy users crunch the numbers on gas
  
• Farm company to pay $20,000 for EPBC Act breach
  
• SA waste program targets small business

Many bilateral investment agreements and free trade agreements give foreign investors broad powers to seek compensation for legislative changes – and these could prove a major global stumbling block to efforts to introduce climate change legislation, according to lawyer and academic Kate Miles.

• ACCC deflates Goodyear tyre claims
  
• AWU's nuclear vision 'fanciful' says coal mining union leader
  
• Attorney-General highlights climate change national security risks
  
• ACT signs Principles for Responsible Investment
  
• NSW releases trade-exposed, emissions-intensive seminar papers
  
• NSW flags contaminated sites auditor accreditation fee price hike
  
  Low-carbon economy poses massive skills challenge

ANZ has confirmed it won't provide finance to Gunns Ltd for its proposed $1.4 billion Bell Bay pulp mill in Tasmania but won't say whether its forests policy was a factor.