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• Canberra grapples with tighter controls on plastic exports
  
• Suncorp shareholders seek targets to exit fossil fuels
  
• NZ businesses launch tougher climate action pledge

Leaders of major developed countries have urged a 'paradigm shift' to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss, and backed a push for zero plastic entering oceans by 2050.

• WA awards $2.29 million to 28 waste projects
  
• NZ builds emissions and waste criteria into government procurement
  
• Optus boosts preparedness for extreme weather events

• EU-Australia free trade talks focus on sustainability
  
• EPA issues prevention notice to glass recycler
  
• Health department seeks PFAS risk communication expert

• Frydenberg to meet Scott Pruitt and International Energy Agency's Fatih Birol
  
• Prepare for carbon price hike, Reputex warns industry
  
• Scant evidence that stewardship schemes lead to better design, cautions expert
  
• New waste plan signals kerbside collection rethink

• Bidding starts in seventh ERF auction
  
• New Zealand to release details of zero carbon bill
  
• Auditor-general to tackle high-profile environmental concerns

• Organic waste recyclers complain of 'combative' regulator
  
• Gold Coast takes action to prevent NSW waste flows
  
• EPA backtracks on disclosing waste data
  
• NZ Greens to take on climate portfolio

• Senate launches new waste inquiry
  
• Government issues new ERF method in time for next auction
  
• Defence slow with response to Senate climate and security inquiry

• Victoria launches $2m energy-from-waste fund
  
• Last chance to register projects for ERF auction
  
• Singapore signals carbon tax

• Hunt to hold Paris briefings next week
  
• EPA instructs company to resubmit flawed odour modelling
  
• Suspended jail sentence for serial waste offender
  
• Mine reports two stormwater discharges to EPA