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• WWF attacks BCA report
  
• Government canvasses 7 star minimum for gas water heaters
  
• Clark wins Greens support for NZ trading bill
  
• EPA Victoria to promote energy-efficient glass
  
• Defence to establish environment panel

• Rudd urges global ‘grand bargain’ on climate change
  
• EPA Victoria: ‘we’ve got an open mind on hazardous waste reforms’
  
• Queensland EPA issues emissions report card

• EPA Victoria prosecutes Mobil
  
• NZ parliamentary committee releases trading bill report
  
• Federal Court rejects EPBC challenge to Xstrata mine

• Australia to fund PNG forest carbon monitoring
  
• Capital cities set to cooperate on national green CBDs scheme
  
• Victorian climate adaptation advisory council holds inaugural meeting
  
• EPA Victoria inks sustainability covenant with Carbon Disclosure Project
  
• South Australia proposes landfill guidelines, Victoria issues landfill guide
  
• 'Keep thinking outside the bauxite', Pew climate chief tells aluminium industry

• Good 'corporate character' fails to convince judge not to record conviction
  
  
  
• Productivity Commission quibbles with, but praises, Stern
  
  
  
• Property Council pushes for Adelaide CBD cooling towers to use recycled water
  
  
  
• TEC, EnergyAustralia disagree on coupling 'smart meters' with in-home displays
  
  
  
• EPA Victoria issues HazWaste Fund guide

• Travelling north: Wong, Garrett and Garnaut head to PNG
  
• Federal government seeks advice on renewables target scheme revamp
  
• Productivity Commission to investigate 'regulatory burden' on upstream oil and gas
  
• G8 business groups set out climate policy expectations; IEA chief urges action; APP to meet again
  
• EPA Victoria issues urban design water guide, SA EPA issues wastewater irrigation guide

• Push for 'bill of rights' approach in Victorian climate Bill
  
• Change laws, not just light bulbs, says Gore in new video
  
• Rudd to sign Australia up to international carbon markets partnership
  
• New NPI boiler manual released
  
• Tasmanian government tables water and sewerage reform bills
  
• Garnaut deadlines loom
  
• Moving beyond 'learn, burn and give': should MBAs involve a 'green Hippocratic oath'?

The Victorian state government will, in the next 10 days, sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the Clinton Initiative that will focus on carbon capture and storage and low-emission and energy efficiency technologies, Victorian Premier John Brumby has just announced.

• Rudd and Somare sign forest carbon partnership
  
  
  
• Stern hits back at Productivity Commission
  
  
  
• 'Poor environmental record' prompts EPA Victoria to oppose licence
  
  
  
• Queensland court hands down suspended jail sentence for polluter

Industry association calls for abolition of national energy efficiency program * Federal government says energy efficiency data not up to scratch * EPA Victoria says environmental offsets can lead to better outcomes * SA to trial kerbside food waste program as NSW issues kerbside guide * Nominations open for Tasmanian awards



* Global fuel, power and transport businesses urge renewable energy milestones and greater government efforts * Carbon Disclosure Project urges business to explore supply chain emissions * UK overhauls legislation on nuclear, renewables and carbon capture and storage