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The Lion group's latest sustainability achievements include new ISO14001 accreditations, installing a cogeneration plant, conducting a company-wide water audit and selling 4.5 million litres of carbon-neutral beer.

• WA backs new Kimberley conservation strategy with $63 million
  
• Garnaut to hold forums in NSW, Queensland
  
• EPA Victoria signs sustainability covenant with bank
  
• Combet announces adaptation grants
  
• Nominations open for WA water awards
  
• Tasmanian Government hosts energy efficiency workshops

The company behind a controversial high-tech coal-fired power plant will share in a new $500,000 grant that will help fund research into coal drying and gasification processes.

Despite falling at the last hurdle in round one of the $1.1 billion Solar Flagships scheme, TRUenergy and Infigen say they will persevere with efforts to secure funding for their large-scale renewable energy power plants.

• Ferguson names first CCS Flagships project
  
• We'll redo modelling when we see compensation terms, says coal chief
  
• New vehicle emission controls to be phased in by 2018

• BCA wary of 'formal' efficiency schemes, backs smart meters
  
• Network businesses make limited progress on demand management
  
• Godfrey Hirst, Grocon pick up Victorian sustainability awards
  
• Forests NSW punished over charred 'smoky mouse' habitat
  
• Solar roundtable offers chance to fix ailing flagship scheme, Milne says

• New study shows jobs at risk, black coal industry says
  
• Government adds two to Low Carbon Australia board
  
• Victoria offers new rebates, as NSW phases out subsidy scheme
  
• Pitt & Sherry wins Tasmanian sustainability award

Printing company Focus Press has become only the second organisation to achieve gold status in the NSW environment department's Sustainability Advantage scheme, capping off a ten-year environmental transformation that has saved the company more than $700,000 in landfill fees and electricity costs.

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.

• Virgin certified carbon neutral; 'sheep to shelf' CO2 tick for wool brand
  
• Governments to tighten transformer efficiency standards
  
• Environment department orders landowner to rehabilitate cleared site