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Orica has developed a new system to guage community attitudes to its facilities, and is anticipating a 'step change' in carbon prices.

The Clean Energy Regulator has contracted to buy only 3.27 million tonnes of greenhouse gas abatement after last week's Emissions Reduction Fund auction, far less than it agreed to purchase at previous auctions.

• Climate liability concerns prompt change in director attitudes: Grattan Institute
  
• CEFC unfazed by new investment mandate
  
• CS Energy wins Queensland government power contract
  
• Melbourne Water aims for 100% beneficial use of biosolids

A national lighting upgrade project that was used by a little-known company to successfully secure an ERF contract worth about $29 million has collapsed.

• Dexus signs renewables deal with Red Energy
  
• Seismic testing didn't disrupt marine life, says CarbonNet
  
• WA to develop new climate policy over next 12 months
  
• New Zealand launches mini-CEFC

Fonterra is walking a fine line between balancing growing demand from consumers for dairy produced from grass-fed cows and its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to its new sustainability report.

EPA Victoria has granted works approval to Australian Paper for a waste to energy plant that will combust 650,000 tonnes of waste, sourced mainly from metropolitan Melbourne.

• Write-down fears could impede climate risk disclosure
  
• Companies cautious in communicating TCFD progress
  
• Businesses should treat climate risk like OHS: Baker McKenzie
  
• Integrated approach needed to climate risks

Adani Group will entirely self-finance the Carmichael coal mine and rail project and is ready to proceed, Adani Mining chief executive Lucas Dow announced today.

Western Australia's LNG industry can fully offset its emissions at a reasonable price by buying local abatement, concludes a new report for the WA Conservation Council by carbon analyst RepuTex.