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• Building upgrades a prime candidate for post-COVID stimulus: Ai Group
  
• Property group's net-zero ambitions align with tenant expectations
  
• Australia's largest wind farm gains RET accreditation

• CEFC backs $1bn rental housing investment fund
  
• Woodside registers new ERF project
  
• NEM emissions to fall 41% below 2005 levels by 2030
  
• New data shows no reduction in national emissions

A Macquarie Group entity will develop emissions targets and strategies for assets including airports, a desalination plant and an energy distributor, with the help of $100 million from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.

The international Science-Based Targets initiative has approved emissions reduction targets adopted by Frasers Property Australia for all its building assets.

Victoria's top sustainability award has gone to an online marketplace for surplus food, with honours also going to four councils involved in a renewable energy bulk buy.

Property company Stockland plans to install an extra 12MW of solar PV, issue new sustainability guidance to suppliers, and reduce the amount of waste going to landfill.

Property group Dexus will gradually replace gas boilers with electric heat pump and solar thermal technologies, says its new strategy paper on achieving net zero emissions by 2030.

• New data shows Australia lags Europe by 45% on vehicle CO2
  
• Big jump in solar installations by industry
  
• Frasers' shopping centre to be energy-positive
  
• Supply chain factors in play as canola company switches to biomass
  
• Bioplastics company expects rapid sales growth

Australia's infrastructure sustainability ratings body will now provide bonus points to projects that reduce their reliance on emissions-intensive Portland cement.

• Discount loans of up to $200,000 on offer for low-emissions vehicles
  
• Major SA renewables project moves forward
  
• NSW offers $8.5m to support low-emissions coal