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Emissions from a spike in land clearing rates, especially in Queensland, will needlessly cost the economy well over $1 billion between now and 2030, a new report by CO2 Australia shows.

• First state government projects cleared to earn carbon credits
  
• 'Waste to energy' company wins right to earn credits
  
• Top companies send climate message to Canberra and business peers
  
• Use rates and stamp duty to encourage building efficiency: Study

Official estimates of how many tonnes of greenhouse gas must be abated to achieve a 5% target are now laughably over-stated, says the ANU's Andrew Macintosh, who also warns Queensland's wind-back of land clearing laws will cause an emissions spike.

• 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

• Fuel leak fine for citrus processer, but Shell pays for clean-up
  
• NSW EPA prosecutes DuPont
  
• The EPBC 'streamlining' that's still stuck in the pipeline
  
• $12.4 million on offer to help develop carbon credit project rules
  
• Council landfills carbon price national forum

• Burke pushes back approval timeframe for Great Barrier Reef port development
  
• WA EPA recommends disclosure condition for expanded mine
  
• Plant hire company fined $35,000 for dumping industrial waste
  
• ABARES outlines carbon credits 'common practice' test

• Olympic Dam EPBC challenge set to test need for certainty
  
• WA aims to fix regulatory flaws, penalties still to be determined
  
• Approval for new CFI carbon credits activity
  
• WA EPA canvasses views on EIA procedures

• R.M. Williams goes in 'boots and all' on carbon credits
  
• Melbourne City Council opts for low-emissions asphalt
  
• Xstrata seeks approval to double size of NT mine

• Plenty of scope to harmonise waste classification rules, analysis shows
  
• Linking rural offsets to a trading scheme crucial to build demand, study says
  
• EPBC bills on marine parks, alpine grazing go before parliament

• EPA Victoria releases resource efficiency case studies (with video)
  
• 'Next government must compensate farmers on carbon and biodiversity': NFF
  
• Gillard a climate failure if there's no carbon price – Bob Brown