Highlights include court rulings and a Carbon Market Institute pre-election policy briefing. Jobs include a senior NGER role with the Clean Energy Regulator, and posts with OceanaGold and Bupa. Read more...
Western Australia's Supreme Court has ruled soil and sand sent to landfill is exempt from the state's waste levy if it contains asbestos that can't reasonably be separated out. Read more...
New Northern Territory EPA guidance says it expects approval applications to include greenhouse gas data for scopes 1,2 and 3, and that it is prepared to recommend carbon offset conditions. Read more...
A waste gasification company is advancing its second project, with an eye to attracting councils disillusioned by a bulk-buy process, while another waste-to-energy company advised by former trade minister Andrew Robb has run into financial difficulties. Read more...
A total of 37 companies in the ASX50 disclosed climate change scenario analysis findings in FY21, the Australian Accounting Standards Board heard today. Read more...
NSW needs a new circular economy agency and should introduce a general environmental duty to ensure re-used materials are safe and fit for purpose, according to the waste and recycling industry association. Read more...
* Governments urged to demand low-carbon materials
* Review could lead to embodied carbon disclosure requirements
* Transport agency embedding sustainability measures in contracts
* UK net-zero commitment creates market for Australian green concrete Read more...
Ahead of Woodside's AGM on Thursday, an activist shareholder group has posed a series of questions to its auditor EY, based on a new international framework for assessing climate disclosures. Read more...
The federal industry department has confirmed there is now no domestic impediment preventing the government from counting voluntary use of ACCUs by businesses towards meeting its own international emissions pledges, rather than treating it as additional. Read more...
The Clean Energy Regulator is trialling a carbon intensity certification scheme with 17 hydrogen projects that are under development by companies including Fortescue, Santos, BP, Engie, Incitec Pivot and Jemena. Read more...
