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• Legislated targets could help companies avoid carbon border levies: DFAT
  
• Government's science advisors oppose Santos plan to release untreated CSG water
  
• BlackRock invests $1 billion in Australian battery market
  
• New Beach Energy target is "greenwash": Market Forces

• Federal and NSW governments award recycling grants totalling $24 million
  
• Whitehaven to face new coal phase-down shareholder resolution
  
• New industry group aims to boost market for methane-cutting seaweeds

The general manager of Mars Food Australia, which now sources 100% of its power from renewables, says groups such as Greenpeace are "positive provocateurs" that play an important role in securing good corporate performance.

• Offshore wind experts: Budget confirms federal support
  
• Off-road diesel subsidy to cost taxpayers $33 billion, says ACF
  
• 'Missed opportunity', warns Clean Energy Council
  
• Carbon Market Institute: Short-term Budget measures need long-term strategy

Insurer QBE reviewed its exposure to climate litigation in 2019 and will invest more than US$1 billion in renewables and environmental initiatives by 2025, according to its latest annual report.

• Raft of new WA projects cleared to earn carbon credits
  
• Global investors demand better climate risk disclosure
  
• Data centre business certified carbon neutral
  
• CEFC lends again to Port Augusta wind farm

A new report defending the RET focuses on the companies that stand to gain billions in extra profits from a policy shift.

Former Liberal leader John Hewson and ex-ACTU president Sharan Burrows are among those behind a new global campaign that says super funds are largely 'dodgers, stallers, tricksters and pleasers' on climate change, with Hewson accusing funds of hypocrisy for backing corporate transparency through the Carbon Disclosure Project but evading scrutiny of their own actions.

Australia could be almost totally reliant on zero emissions energy by 2050, or even earlier, if it rejigs and expands the Renewable Energy Target and develops a national transport electrification policy, according to a study by WWF and Climate Risk.

Modelling shows the Gillard Government's proposed power station CO2 emission standard could imperil efforts to cut emissions unless they are tightened, according to WWF and the Climate Institute, but the ESAA says standards represent an "unnecessary market intervention".