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About half the complaints about green marketing are made by competing firms, according to ACCC commissioner John Martin. Meanwhile, the Total Environment Centre says it should be mandatory for ads making green claims to include supporting evidence.

• Ferguson on energy efficiency: we favour market approaches
  
• Exploration acreage not given proper environmental scrutiny, gas company says
  
• Don't proceed with renewables target scheme, BCA tells Government
  
• Network regulation hampering demand management, report finds
  
• Victoria establishes climate change advisory group
  
• We're now carbon neutral, City of Sydney says

If you want maximum value from your energy auditor don't restrict them to searching only for short payback projects, News Ltd's environment and climate change manager Tony Wilkins tells CE Daily. And don't let them get away with anything less than a comprehensive, detailed analysis of opportunities across your business.

• Coal-fired power plant assessment challenge fails
  
• Banksia Award winners announced
  
• National Pollutant Inventory issues new manuals
  
• Gore urges U.S. to be 100% renewable in a decade (with video)
  
• OECD calls for policy shift on biofuels

Is your chief financial officer still reeling from the dawning realisation of the scale of your company's carbon liabilities and the huge challenge involved in keeping proper and timely account of them?



No wonder. Chances are the way your company currently collects greenhouse gas data won't cut it when trading starts.



CE Daily talks to Ernst & Young's Lorraine Stephenson about the complex task of integrating greenhouse gas data with traditional financial data.(plus audio)

How one major company's investor liaison team had to learn fast on carbon.



And PwC sets out a business timeline for responding to government climate policy and working out if you will be a permit buyer or a seller.

There is still a tendency to indulge in 'trophy cabinet' reporting on sustainability and climate change, despite dramatic improvements in the quality of reporting, says Colonial First State's Amanda McCluskey.



Meanwhile, the Carbon Disclosure Project sets out best practice measures to encourage supply chain reporting of emissions and carbon strategies.

According to Greens leader Bob Brown, the Rudd government's first Budget is just 'Howard-Costello lite'.



The Greens and Greenpeace have delivered scathing assessments of the Budget's climate and environment initiatives, though other appraisals have generally been more favourable.

It's Labor's first commitment period – with the Rudd government last night setting out where its climate change and environment cash will be spent over 2008-2012. New Budget climate measures will get $341.6 million in 2008-09 and a total of $2.3 billion over 2007-08 to 2011-12.



Meanwhile, Treasurer Wayne Swan says the review of the tax system – due to report by the end of 2009 – will 'look at the role to be played by environmental taxes'.

CE Daily looks at where the money will go and guides you through the maze of Budget papers.

• National Water Commission to scrutinise water use by mines
  
• Federal energy program issues detailed efficiency guide
  
• NSW issues exemptions for land-applied wastes
  
• Shipping company fined $35,000
  
• Queensland council fined $40,000
  
• National Pollutant Inventory offers training on new reporting system
  
• Queensland EPA offers sustainability grants
  
• GM crops a boon for regional economies, ABARE says