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• Eight steps to supply chain sustainability for plastics and chemicals companies
  
• Composter switches to biogas, cuts emissions to zero
  
• Business must lead on sustainability: World business council

• Coal miner signs $1.8 million BioBanking agreement
  
• IBM reports big HVAC energy savings
  
• New carbon credit rules finalised
  
• New Zealand clarifies trading scheme changes

Negotiators at the Rio+20 sustainability summit have a deal ready for leaders to sign, although few are enthusiastic about it, while initiatives launched on the conference sidelines are likely to have major ramifications for business.

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.

• Queensland to overhaul framework environment law
  
• Financing fix for energy efficiency projects, refrigeration upgrades
  
• $179bn in climate bonds issued, study finds

• 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

The old ways of doing business and measuring its performance are betraying the future, and urgent action is needed to end the corrosive influence of short-term thinking, says a new paper by Al Gore.

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

Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd is one of the key architects of a new UN report that aims to shape the agenda of a major conference that will mark the 20th anniversary of the Earth Summit, and which could lead to the creation of a powerful, new UN environment body.

• Woolworths reflects on energy savings
  
• Treasury seeks views on carbon credits regulations
  
• Re-start date for Orica plant to be set next week
  
• IEA scrutinises deployment strategies for renewables