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The first (minor) provisions of the recent NSW planning reforms have begun, but it may take 12 months for the full package of reforms to commence.

The European Union's (EU) Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) is one of the most significant corporate responsibility reforms...

To supply to or trade in EU markets, Australian businesses will need to comply with CSDDD reforms.

The CFI is a carbon offset scheme to allow abatement activities from the land sector to generate carbon credits.

The key objective of the Bill is to achieve a more timely and streamlined land use planning and development framework.

The private sector should anticipate where the sustainability market is heading and be innovative with green ideas when bidding for PPPs. The future of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) will increasingly include a fourth "P" – Planet. Serious bidders for PPPs can not think that the innovation required to gain a competitive edge doesn't extend to addressing sustainability, including by incorporating clever environmental solutions in a bid.

This newsletter has links to recent media releases, reports, legislation and cases relating to planning & environment.

If implemented successfully, there may be benefits for developers, such as an expanded biodiversity certification scheme.

An anti-coal activist admitted sending a fake announcement from ANZ saying it had withdrawn financing for a new mine.

The Queensland Court of Appeal has delivered a landmark decision on land valuation methodology for renewable energy projects, examining whether a 500MW solar farm and battery storage facility should be valued as rural or non-rural land. The case centered on a dispute involving nearly six million dollars in valuation differences and raises critical questions about how development approvals for renewable energy infrastructure impact statutory land valuations under Queensland's Land Valuation Act 2010.

The MERFP Act changed the face of financing environmental remediation liabilities for Qld mining and resource projects.

The draft methodology documents for Sequestering Carbon in Soils in Grazing Systems are open for public consultation.

On 1 July 2009 major amendments to the Contaminated Land Management Act 1997 commenced.

The Government aims to tighten laws regulating the taking of groundwater for mining activities by resource proponents.

Legislative amendments have changed the reporting obligations of polluters.

On 20 August 2010, the NSW Department of Planning released the final NSW Coastal Planning Guideline: Adapting to Sea Level Rise to provide guidance on how sea level rise is to be considered in land use planning and development assessment in coastal NSW.

The NSW Government is proposing broad reforms to improve the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process.