Browsing: <a href="/tag/energy-efficiency">Energy efficiency</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/green-carbon">Green carbon</a>

• Water planning rules need review: Victorian Tribunal
  
• Victoria establishes smart meter advisory council
  
• CO2 Australia tests new eucalypt in first Queensland project
  
• Queensland reviews licensing regulations for solar hot water installations

• Green Building Council certifies 400th building
  
• Westpac launches new leasing product for energy efficient equipment
  
• Marathon payout avoids litigation over mining rights
  
• New Carbon Farming Initiative guide launched

• Association urges councils to act on new 'carbon credit' rules
  
• Macquarie makes energy efficient equipment leases easier
  
• Origin chief hits back at 'egregious' CSG emissions claims

• Victoria confirms energy efficiency scheme change
  
• Comment sought on new "carbon farming" activities
  
• Victorian agencies back new emissions calculator

A wide-ranging Victorian Climate Change Bill unveiled this morning that gives the EPA sweeping new powers and introduces soil carbon rights will put the State 'well ahead of the rest of Australia', Premier John Brumby has told Parliament.

The Victorian Government will introduce a bill mandating that the State cut greenhouse gas emissions to 20% below 2000 levels by 2020, give its EPA new powers to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and create a green carbon offsets scheme, says its long-awaited climate change white paper.

Hunger-strike farmer wins right to High Court hearing; High Court to rule on watchdog NGO's tax status; and World Economic Forum issues energy efficiency report.

The Coalition doesn't favour emissions trading or a carbon tax, but hasn't ruled out an energy efficiency trading scheme, shadow climate change minister Greg Hunt tells CE Daily.

Dumped Coalition leader Malcolm Turnbull today accused new leader Tony Abbott of not wanting to do anything about climate change, but Abbott's likely new climate spokesman Greg Hunt says it's time to look at what 'direct action' can deliver.

• Court orders director to pay $91,000 over landfill breaches
  
• WA seeks input on feed-in tariff design
  
• NSW offers energy efficiency training course grants
  
• WWF Australia chief: how the negotiators could buy time
  
• 'Livestock emissions underplayed'