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Negotiators at the Rio+20 sustainability summit have a deal ready for leaders to sign, although few are enthusiastic about it, while initiatives launched on the conference sidelines are likely to have major ramifications for business.

The old ways of doing business and measuring its performance are betraying the future, and urgent action is needed to end the corrosive influence of short-term thinking, says a new paper by Al Gore.

NAB is co-founding a global initiative to ensure banks and businesses properly value ecosystem services in their decision-making, accounting and reporting.

The world's most widely used standards for corporate emissions accounting and reporting have been expanded, with the release of new protocols and 'how-to' guidelines on assessing supply chains and product lifecycles (with video.

Executives capable of driving a sustainability agenda demonstrate six key leadership qualities, says a new World Business Council for Sustainable Development briefing paper that includes tips on ensuring top management has the necessary skills.

• Qantas signs agreement on algal jet fuel
  
• House passes private member's EPBC bill, another in the wings
  
• Garnaut reassesses emissions projections

ACT Assembly passes law to ban plastic bags

* Silex to raise $89 million to fund pilot solar PV power plants

* Sydney councils propose new recycling and composting facilities

* Consultant sought for Western Australia renewables study

* Energetics, EPA Victoria win CitySwitch awards

* New website rates emissions performance of container ships, tankers

* Tasmania seeks comment on state taxes and sustainability

• NT Minister lobbies for national container deposit scheme
  
• NSW roads agency approves first project using crushed waste glass
  
• IEA sounds warning: emissions must peak by 2020
  
• U.S. provides $1.85 billion for two solar projects

• Grounded – Parsons Brinckerhoff launches fly-free week
  
• Tuvalu blasts Copenhagen Accord in UN submission
  
• National park asbestos dumper fined $10,000

• Tax breaks help solar firm expand, NSW Parliament told
  
• Two coal projects make EPBC Act referrals
  
• U.S. Armed Forces tackle their carbon 'boot print'