Carbon Farming Initiative bills passed; now to get ready for them-Australia will soon have a framework for carbon farming in place, with the passage of the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Bill 2011, Carbon Credits (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2011 and the Australian National Registry of Emissions Units Bill 2011.

Clayton Utz advising Minara Resources on Glencore takeover offer-Clayton Utz is advising ASX-listed nickel producer Minara Resources Pty Ltd in connection
with Glencore Investment's (a wholly owned subsidiary of Glencore International plc) off-market takeover offer for the remaining 27% of shares that it does not currently own in Minara Resources.

Copyright makes headlines in the UK-The UK Court of Appeal has held that the unlicensed receipt and use of headlines or extracts of online news articles, communicated to users by media monitoring companies, will constitute an infringement of the article publisher's copyright (Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd v Meltwater Holding BV [2011] EWCA Civ 890).

The response to the Hawke Review: federal environmental law to be reformed, not re-written-The environmental assessment and approvals process in Australia will be streamlined, and tentative steps taken towards the harmonisation of environmental assessment and approvals legislation across States and Territories, according to the Australian Government's response to the Hawke review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) ("EPBC Act").

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