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NAB is co-founding a global initiative to ensure banks and businesses properly value ecosystem services in their decision-making, accounting and reporting.

• Burke names Government's coal seam gas scientific advisors
  
• TRUenergy lodges EPBC referral for open-cycle gas plant
  
• World business body releases quarry rehabilitation guidelines

• KPMG review of NSW waste levy won't examine 'general revenue' grab
  
• Government rejects Senate committee call to review land clearing laws
  
• Norske Skog slashes Derwent estuary discharges

Tasmania launches first stage of Climate Change Act review

* Visy steamed up over 'clean energy' plant

* Flemington racecourse to install six more desalination plants

* Clean Energy Council criticises native forest biomass RET ban

* CO2 Group reports record revenue

* Carbon scheme won't have material impact, Incitec Pivot tells ASX

* Combet names land sector carbon board members

• Environmental woes costing $4 million a week, says Orica
  
• New financing tools on the way for cogeneration
  
• Good energy data a pre-condition for winning clean energy grants
  
• Case study: Energy scheme slashes lighting upgrade payback period

• Paint company fined for failing to comply with resource efficiency scheme
  
• Alcoa and Victorian Government finalise new special agreement for coal mining
  
• Retailer efforts to 'green' supply chains risk ACCC scrutiny, IPA says
  
• P&O cuts water use, carbon emissions intensity

• More to come to secure EPBC protection for national parks, Burke says
  
• Centennial Coal to pay $1.45 million EPBC Act penalty
  
• Business seeks changes to Sydney trade waste plans, NSW incident reporting bill
  
• Toyota misses some five-year sustainability targets

• 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

Banks don't have the right to refuse credit to legitimate businesses on environmental grounds but there are plenty of other options, says NAB chief financial officer Mark Joiner.

Three Australian banks are listed in a new global carbon performance leadership index prepared by the prestigious Carbon Disclosure Project, while a regional report due out in November will detail how the ASX200 and NZ50 are faring.