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• New carbon and energy grants on offer
  
• CO2 Group reports record profit; Trading revenue grows to $38m
  
• New WA climate change-readiness strategy under fire

Australian and international investor groups have demanded that oil and gas companies demonstrate that they are effectively controlling fugitive methane emissions, and they want intensive gas users to exert pressure as well.

• State schemes still unnecessary if carbon price goes: Coalition
  
• Environmental regulators explore 'proceeds of crime' options
  
• Retrofit payoff: building bought for $7.95m, sold for $12.25m
  
• Australia on track to meet Kyoto emissions commitment
  
• Tasmania urged to prioritise Climate Council tasks

• Boral abandons sustainability reporting
  
• State sustainability commissioner to release climate paper
  
• RIS favours voluntary controls on chemical precursors to explosives
  
• Industry greenhouse network seeks new CEO
  
• GetUp! warns of media climate-reporting hijacking

• Ferguson appoints manager of $200m renewables venture capital fund
  
• 'Hockey stick' climatologist: 'we hold the future in our hands' (with video)
  
• Carbon credits rules finalised for native forest plantings
  
• Architect of EPA Victoria transformation takes up new post

With a new federal government report highlighting $226 billion in climate change risk to coastal infrastructure, Colonial First State infrastructure investment manager Mark Rogers says Brisbane airport offers a good example of how business should respond.

• 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

• NT Minister lobbies for national container deposit scheme
  
• NSW roads agency approves first project using crushed waste glass
  
• IEA sounds warning: emissions must peak by 2020
  
• U.S. provides $1.85 billion for two solar projects

• WA EPA recommends approval for Rio Tinto port proposal
  
• 'Heat stress' poses biggest long-term climate risk - report
  
• Water conservation awards requests entries

• Chief Scientist urges climate action as poll finds uncertainty over science
  
• EPA Victoria updates best practice landfill guidelines
  
• SA EPA seeks site contamination auditors