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• New research on major projects adds to Greens argument
  
• New ESG risk rating tool for investors
  
• Governments can easily fix eastern state gas supply inequity: ACCC
  
• Queensland announces new battery for Emerald

• 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

Victoria's top sustainability advisor has warned that the state's biodiversity is in decline on multiple fronts, in a new 'state of the environment' report.

Transurban has completed detailed climate risk assessments for three of its major road projects and has identified new strategies to use energy more efficiently.

Sydney Airport's inaugural sustainability report says it will conduct a climate variability assessment this year, while Newcrest's latest report says it has 'far exceeded' regulatory requirements at its Telfer mine.

Global investors with more than $3 trillion under management have asked 45 companies - including BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, BP and Xstrata - to explain how they are planning for an 80% reduction in fossil fuel emissions by 2050.

Australia's latest greenhouse gas accounts don't prove the carbon price is a 'pointless burden', as claimed by Environment Minister Greg Hunt, but they do show that the scheme's influence has so far been modest, says Pitt & Sherry's Hugh Saddler.

• Radioactive waste study can consider 'overseas management'
  
• Perceptions at odds with environmental realities: SA EPA
  
• Climate commission goes community-funded

• Boral abandons sustainability reporting
  
• State sustainability commissioner to release climate paper
  
• RIS favours voluntary controls on chemical precursors to explosives
  
• Industry greenhouse network seeks new CEO
  
• GetUp! warns of media climate-reporting hijacking

• IT moves help Macquarie Group meet carbon commitments
  
• Murray Goulburn strategy a model for climate adaptation action: AiGroup
  
• Innovation laggard: energy industry spends 'about 1%' of turnover on R&D
  
• Nominations sought for WA waste awards