This site provides checklists, guides, case studies and other resources covering topics such as: Renewable energy Energy efficiency Waste and recycling Life cycle thinking Water savings It also provides information about availability of funding programs to support sustainability, for example, the Victorian Sustainability Fund. See http://www.sustainability.vic.gov.au/ … [Read more...]
Dept Primary Industries, Parks, Water & Environment (Tas)
This site has information on legislation, regulations, guides and programs such as: Environmental management Waste, recycling and industrial waste management Air and water quality See http://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/ … [Read more...]
Dept of Environment Regulation (WA)
Legislation, information and fact sheets on topics including: Air quality Climate change Contaminated sites Environmentally sensitive areas Environmental offsets Waste legislation See https://www.der.wa.gov.au/ … [Read more...]
Environment Protection Authority (SA)
The Environmental Protection Authority (SA) web site provides information and links for businesses to help them reduce their impact on the environment and use their resources more efficiently. The site provides information, guidelines and legislation on topics including: Licensing requirements and online applications Air quality impact assessment Site contamination, assessment and remediation Managing spills – bunding and spill management, site contamination, Business life cycle – … [Read more...]
Qld Government environment and pollution management
A central source of information on environmental management requirements in Queensland including: Waste reduction and recycling strategy Environmental licences and permits Duty of care guidelines for cultural heritage protection Environmental impact assessment guidelines. See http://www.qld.gov.au/environment/pollution/ Business focused information is available at https://www.business.qld.gov.au/business/running/environment. … [Read more...]
Living Sustainably: the Australian Government’s National Action Plan for Education for Sustainability
Living Sustainably: the Australian Government's National Action Plan for Education for Sustainability sets out a framework for national action that adopts four strategies to respond to the needs and priorities of education for sustainability. 'Demonstrating Australian Government leadership' aims to strengthen the government's leadership role in education for sustainability as an exemplar for change through its own policies, programs and operations and by promoting system-wide change through … [Read more...]
National Pollutant Inventory reporting requirements (NPI)
Businesses have to report on their emissions and waste transfers if they trip the reporting thresholds which are defined for 93 substances, rates of burning waste and fuel and the rate and type of electricity usage. A series of Emission Estimation Technique (EET) manuals have been developed for each reporting industry. These outline the industry processes, various methods for estimating emissions and equations for converting different types of measurement. The full list of manuals is … [Read more...]
National Carbon Offset Standard (NCOS)
From 1 July 2010 Australia has a National Carbon Offset Standard (NCOS) to encourage businesses to offset their greenhouse-gas emissions in a voluntary carbon market. It provides a voluntary standard for businesses to use in becoming carbon neutral and in developing carbon neutral products. It also includes guidance on calculating the carbon footprint of an organisation or product and product life cycle analysis for the purpose of achieving ‘carbon neutrality’. Only emissions sources that … [Read more...]
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Scheme (GGAS)(NSW)
The NSW Greenhouse Gas Reduction Scheme (GGAS) (sic) closed on 30 June 2012. The GGAS Registry will continue to be supported into the future to enable the trade and surrender of certificates by interested parties. The Energy Savings Scheme (ESS) is the NSW-based mandatory energy efficiency scheme for electricity retailers and other liable parties under the Electricity Supply Act. The ESS reduces electricity consumption in NSW by creating financial incentives to invest in energy … [Read more...]
Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act 1999 (Commonwealth)
The Act has been replaced by the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012, which is administered by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency. … [Read more...]
