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Carbon abatement from projects with major environmental and social benefits will be purchased at more than twice the ERF auction price, under contracts being negotiated by the Queensland government.

• Queensland's CleanCo partners with Acciona in massive 1GW wind project
  
• Regulator issues second batch of soil carbon credits
  
• Few Safeguard companies use credits to reduce net emissions

The Queensland government has invited tenders to supply more than 90,000 carbon credits – an amount much greater than the Federal Government's Clean Energy Regulator agreed to buy at its last auction.

The Queensland government has launched its $500 million Land Restoration Fund, with $5 million initially on offer.

A plant that would gasify coal into ammonia and syngas, producing two million tonnes of by-product CO2 a year, will undergo fast-track environmental assessment.

• SA Liberals praise 100% renewables target, to develop 'blue carbon' strategy
  
• Remondis plans $400m waste-to-energy plant
  
• Farmers seek improvements to agvet chemicals stewardship scheme
  
• Cleanaway gains approval to export PCBs

• NT appoints renewables panel
  
• Boral kiln granted approval to emit at record levels
  
• Queensland to offset fleet emissions through Indigenous projects

Emissions from a spike in land clearing rates, especially in Queensland, will needlessly cost the economy well over $1 billion between now and 2030, a new report by CO2 Australia shows.

• Queensland to mandate biofuel use
  
• Auditor-General accused of 'systematic pessimism' on smart meters
  
• Hunt issues carbon credits method for beef farmers
  
• ACT adaptation strategy due soon

The Clean Energy Regulator on Friday removed Gladstone Regional Council from the list of carbon-liable entities, thanks to its deployment of landfill gas capture technology that will also earn it CFI carbon credits.