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• How Ai Group aims to boost members' carbon skills
  
  
  
• PacHydro releases sustainability report
  
  
  
• SA EPA provides easier access to public register information

Tasmania launches first stage of Climate Change Act review

* Visy steamed up over 'clean energy' plant

* Flemington racecourse to install six more desalination plants

* Clean Energy Council criticises native forest biomass RET ban

* CO2 Group reports record revenue

* Carbon scheme won't have material impact, Incitec Pivot tells ASX

* Combet names land sector carbon board members

• 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

The carbon price means sustainability managers now have senior management's attention – but they risk squandering it unless they front up with good data, says David Solsky of CarbonSystems.

• Environmental woes costing $4 million a week, says Orica
  
• New financing tools on the way for cogeneration
  
• Good energy data a pre-condition for winning clean energy grants
  
• Case study: Energy scheme slashes lighting upgrade payback period

AGL describes its efforts to allay concerns over coal seam gas and wind projects, reports a 23% fall in GreenPower sales and explains its solar PV plans in the wake of an ill-fated venture with Bovis Lend Lease, in a sustainability report released today.

Social issues that will become material for Westpac over the next 30 years include the prospect of 'systemic disruptions' caused by environmental changes, says the bank's sustainability report, released today.

• NSW Chief Judge tightens minister's coal mine approval conditions
  
• Climate department seeks views on energy efficiency information grants
  
• Law firm issues guide to clean energy legislation
  
• Origin exercises $30m option to buy carbon forestry credits

Don't overestimate the effort required to be officially certified as carbon neutral, but the rewards make it worthwhile, says the City of Sydney's sustainability manager Chris Derksema.

BlueScope Steel declined to respond to this year's Carbon Disclosure Project, bucking a trend of rising disclosure that resulted in 50% of ASX200 companies reporting their emissions data and response strategies, today's CDP Australia/New Zealand report reveals.