Browsing: <a href="/tag/vic">Victoria</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/built-environment">Built environment</a>

• Eight months on, no sign of ministerial meeting
  
• Tribunal rejects bid for top-up clause in groundwater licence
  
• Victoria hands out $3 million for recycling
  
• Tasmania targets large emitters
  
• Don't overlook CO2 benefits of wood products, business leaders urge
  
• National Water Commission under review

• R.M. Williams goes in 'boots and all' on carbon credits
  
• Melbourne City Council opts for low-emissions asphalt
  
• Xstrata seeks approval to double size of NT mine

• NSW solar audit finds major defects in 18.5% of units
  
• NGER data 'a major step forward' for energy statistics
  
• EPA Victoria releases licence monitoring guidelines
  
• Carbon price would drive green building demand, council says

• Gillard flags changes to water efficiency, ozone legislation
  
• Combet urges Coalition to join climate committee, Garnaut backs new process
  
• Melbourne City Council gains green financing powers
  
• Commonwealth Bank teams with Lend Lease Solar

The Victorian Government will introduce a bill mandating that the State cut greenhouse gas emissions to 20% below 2000 levels by 2020, give its EPA new powers to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and create a green carbon offsets scheme, says its long-awaited climate change white paper.

• Third green building certification scheme approved
  
• Southeast Asia needs clean energy incentives: IEA
  
• New guidance on wastewater mixing zones

• NSW court rejects Walker Corp's land clearing defence
  
• No role for councils in mandating building sustainability: Victorian inquiry
  
• Meatworks and winemakers big winners in climate grants round

Victoria's Budget shows a touted $60 million spend on greening government buildings will involve expenditure of just $50 million over the next four years, while the Northern Territory's Budget boosts funding for its EPA and paves the way for a container deposit scheme.

Measures in an 18-point Green Jobs plan unveiled today by the Victorian Government include a $60 million spend on eight priority construction projects and streamlined approval procedures for renewable energy projects.

• Victorian climate bill now has 'adaptation' focus
  
• UNFCCC looking to repair 'reputational damage', Australian climate official says
  
• Ministers to extend used packaging measure
  
• Federal department seeks advice on aligning building rating tools