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The Commonwealth Bank has set new emissions reduction targets, and says using NGER and EEO data allowed it to cut by 75% the cost of conducting carbon 'due diligence' investigations into projects seeking finance.

The Federal Environment Department has launched a tender seeking consultants to advise it on various environmental matters, including chemicals, waste, synthetic greenhouse gases and genetically modified organisms.

Upcoming events include conferences on Direct Action, contaminated sites, energy-from-waste and bioenergy, as well as the inaugural oration in honour of Fiona Wain, to be delivered by ARENA's Greg Bourne.

Shell's external advisory committee on sustainability reporting has urged the company to explain how it can claim to support carbon pricing, when it belongs to industry bodies that don't.

Former climate change minister Greg Combet today urged institutional investors to take a stand against companies that try to avoid action on climate change.

After turning to landfill gas as a fuel for some of its mainland kilns, Brickworks Building Products has had its Tasmanian facility certified 'carbon neutral'.

The Senate this afternoon voted down the Government's carbon price repeal bills, while the Coalition this morning re-introduced to the House a bill to abolish the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.

• Senate rejects bill to abolish the CEFC
  
• New certification scheme targets building retrofit professionals
  
• Encourage carbon offsets with co-benefits, report says

AGL's latest sustainability report warns new high-emissions power plants risk becoming stranded assets, and says investors now pay far more attention to the emissions profile of its businesses.

• ERF cuts pointless without penalties: Grattan Institute
  
• Low-carbon investment dollars will 'sit on the sidelines'
  
• Seek efficiency gains from existing homes: Master Builders
  
• Carbon price 'costly and ineffective': Refrigerants industry
  
• Farm-based abatement projects won't be the cheapest: NFF