Two facilities with Safeguard baselines far above their actual emissions are undergoing state assessment processes that could more tightly cap what they emit, irrespective of Safeguard changes.
The NSW government will overhaul key Treasury guidance to ensure climate risk is properly considered, and will require all agencies to report on progress towards climate change resilience.
The NSW Government now forecasts that the state's emissions will halve by 2030, instead of falling by about a third, and the recalibration is being driven by changes already underway in business, agriculture, transport and the coal industry.
Santos has presented the Independent Planning Commission with a new legal opinion on ecologically sustainable development and carbon emissions, as it seeks approval for its Narrabri coal seam gas project.
A farmer whose prosecution over land clearing has prompted him to challenge NSW's vegetation law as unconstitutional, has failed to convince the Federal Court to issue a costs order.
The NSW government's plan to put the state on track to net-zero emissions will encourage good performers and expose bad ones, while leveraging government procurement and assets to an unprecedented extent.