Accounting firm RSM Bird Cameron is urging businesses to start preparing now for the introduction of the carbon tax on 1 July 2012. [ + ]

Energy management specialist Schneider Electric has made a senior appointment which will further increase its business focus and integrated solution offering to the Australian water and wastewater sector. [ + ]

The Future of Packaging White Paper has been released by the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) to help the food and grocery manufacturing industry in developing sustainable packaging. [ + ]

This year, Ozwater’12 was held in Darling Harbour, Sydney. Russell Dawson, Leader, Koomurri Aboriginal Dance Company, welcomed everyone to country with his fabulous didgeridoo performance and Peter Robinson, Director, Australian Water Association (AWA), chaired the opening ceremony. [ + ]

University of Leicester researchers are set to use new technology they have developed to monitor the impact of increased traffic on pollution levels in London during the Olympics. [ + ]

A green technique for capping and cleansing old urban landfill sites and mine dumps has been successfully trialled in South Australia. [ + ]

‘Cam’ you capture water? The prestigious 2012 international savewater! awards are calling for budding photographers from around the world to share their photographs that illustrate the importance of water and conserving it for the future. [ + ]

The 2012 Sustainable Ocean Innovation Award has been awarded to GhostNets Australia for their work in northern Australia tackling the serious problem of lost fishing nets called ‘ghost nets’. [ + ]

The Domestic Offsets Integrity Committee has released, for public consultation, an offsets methodology that could provide livestock producers with new opportunities to earn carbon credits for reducing methane emissions. [ + ]

Scrapping the promised $1 billion Tax Breaks for Green Buildings program would prevent Australia from picking the ‘lowest of the low hanging fruit’, says the nation’s leading green building organisation. [ + ]

The Australian Water Association (AWA) and Opus International Consultants (Opus) have announced the arrival of a new registered training organisation for the water sector, AWA Opus Water Industry Training Institute (WITI). [ + ]

Process solutions provider Bürkert has appointed Pacific Rim Technical Services (PRTS) as its distributor for North Queensland. [ + ]

Canon is proud to be celebrating 10 years of the Cartridges 4 Planet Ark recycling program. This anniversary is a significant milestone, with more than 18 million cartridges diverted from landfill since 2003, of which 4,267,687 were Canon cartridges. [ + ]

The Republic of Korea, the world’s 15th largest economy and one of Australia’s top trading partners, has passed legislation for a national emissions trading scheme (ETS). [ + ]

Parliamentary Secretary for Industry and Innovation, Mark Dreyfus, has announced that the 2012 Australian Clean Technologies Competition is now open for nominations. [ + ]