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A new emphasis on nature-based climate change solutions is practically the only significant sustainability component of the G20 leaders declaration, according to summit observers.

• Major super fund commits to net-zero investment portfolio
  
• Clean Energy Regulator to pay in advance for soil carbon credits
  
• NZ Parliament passes environment "Wellbeing Bill"

• Labor to ease restrictions on carbon forestry
  
• Building products company seeks consent for 4.5MW solar farm
  
• Singapore's hydrogen ambitions offer opportunities for Australia, says Austrade

Buying international carbon credits might end up more expensive than purchasing units created through domestic forestry projects, New Zealand's climate change minister Paula Bennett told business leaders today.

• Free carbon units for Nyrstar, Qenos, CSR
  
• New EU plan will lift Australian carbon price: Westpac
  
• Climate department issues draft CFI guidelines

• New industrial activities poised to enter efficiency scheme
  
• European regulators praise integrity of Australian carbon market
  
• Carbon Conscious aims to deliver four million credits annually by 2020

• 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

• Government delays green tax breaks scheme
  
• Expect 'modest' abatement from forests and soils, CSIRO tells Senate
  
• NZ wind farm decision-makers obliged to consider 'national interest'
  
• Don't scapegoat renewables, Climate Institute says
  
• Major emitters to meet next week

• Soil carbon 'a data free zone': Farm Institute
  
• How our trading scheme is starting to bite: NZ climate minister
  
• Thwaites calls for changes to NEM rules
  
• 'No excuse' for new developments not to consider co-generation: Origin
  
• 'We prefer sub-prime mortgages to biosequestration': super company

Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Australia are among about 50 nations that yesterday joined an international partnership designed to speed efforts to prevent tropical forest destruction and accelerate the expenditure of about A$4.6 billion pledged for tropical forest protection.