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• NSW to upgrade four interconnectors by 2024
  
• Newcrest boosts profile of sustainability reporting
  
• Delta Electricity makes waste complaint to EPA
  
• State Liberals promise tender for 500MW of new capacity

Brambles' CHEP division has started offering its customers certificates that quantify the environmental benefits that come from using its reusable pallets and containers.

Property company Stockland plans to install an extra 12MW of solar PV, issue new sustainability guidance to suppliers, and reduce the amount of waste going to landfill.

• Use licences to make power plants improve on CO2, EPA told
  
• BHP estimates customers' carbon emissions
  
• Bunnings vets timber purchases worth more than $1 billion

Packaging company Orora has added climate change to its list of principal risks, and is struggling to find an alternative use for a key waste stream.

• Mirvac reveals sustainability successes, to release carbon white paper
  
• AGL reveals internal carbon price
  
• Victoria seeks executive to commercialise CarbonNet
  
• Suncorp takes first steps towards expanded carbon disclosure

• Power price rises bite for CSR, new solar project comes on-stream
  
• New Victorian bag ban to include compostable plastic
  
• Beverage companies fail to stop collective bargaining by collection depots
  
• Singtel Optus to prepare decarbonisation roadmap

Last year's Ikea sustainability report made no mention of the circular economy, but its 2018 version says the concept is now at the core of the company's approach.

Sydney City will establish a 'net zero emissions challenge' for building owners and will investigate using aquifers to store recycled water and stormwater for reuse, says its new environmental plan.

Clothing company Kathmandu is aiming to use only "sustainable cotton" in its products by 2020, according to its latest sustainability report.