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A new review says Victoria's mandatory EREP resource efficiency scheme is now expected to deliver even greater savings than previously anticipated.

• Victoria considers incentives for installing energy-use 'in-home displays'
  
• New ministerial council makes clean energy consistency a priority
  
• Computer and TV industries join forces for national e-waste scheme

• Galilee coal mine would have 'negligible' climate impact: EIS
  
• Don't allow 100%+ free permit allocations, carbon committee told
  
• Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd signs 100-unit deal
  
• Energy efficiency a winner for casinos, Crown says
  
• EPA Victoria, waste managers sign Sustainability Covenant

A pallet recycling initiative has helped cut Fuji Xerox Australia's waste-to-landfill by 41% in 2010-11, but the company failed to meet a 1% reduction target for carbon emissions.

Printing company Focus Press has become only the second organisation to achieve gold status in the NSW environment department's Sustainability Advantage scheme, capping off a ten-year environmental transformation that has saved the company more than $700,000 in landfill fees and electricity costs.

• IT moves help Macquarie Group meet carbon commitments
  
• Murray Goulburn strategy a model for climate adaptation action: AiGroup
  
• Innovation laggard: energy industry spends 'about 1%' of turnover on R&D
  
• Nominations sought for WA waste awards

• Council consent for new Coles complex conditional on 50% renewables
  
• Climate advocacy fund withdraws shareholder resolution
  
• Victorian levy funds must be spent on waste programs, Ai Group says
  
• IEA reveals Australia's dismal public spending on energy efficiency

Marketing and distribution company Metcash has identified significant energy and water savings, after joining the NSW environment department's Sustainability Advantage scheme, according to the company's sustainability manager, Louise Rhodes.

Developer Stockland saved more than $90,000 on energy bills last year at its award-winning new Sydney CBD office tenancy - highlighting the importance of planning sustainability initiatives in advance of a big move, according to the company's Davina Rooney.

• NSW details criteria for approving waste re-use as fertiliser, fill
  
• Burke seeks waste experts to support national policy efforts
  
• NSW canvasses views on coastal protection regulation
  
• Combet seeks consultants to evaluate housing energy efficiency standard