Woodside has completed the largest and most comprehensive testing exercise for a major oil spill ever carried out in Australia, according to the company's latest sustainability report.
Global investors with more than $3 trillion under management have asked 45 companies - including BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, BP and Xstrata - to explain how they are planning for an 80% reduction in fossil fuel emissions by 2050.
Seminars coming up around Australia over the next few months will cover topics including environmental compliance, energy efficiency, bioenergy, carbon and water management at mines.
Companies will be under more pressure to inform investors of their environmental risk management strategies, under proposed changes to ASX corporate governance guidelines.
Almost 1,000 potentially contaminated sites have been reported to the NSW EPA since late 2009 – compared to just 500 notifications over the entire previous decade, says the state's new State of the Environment Report.