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Welcome to the sixth edition of Environment and Energy News, the newsletter of the ABS Centre of Environment and Energy Statistics (CEES). Environment and Energy News is published twice a year, highlighting developments in environment and energy statistics particularly at the ABS.

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	Climate change and water: measuring the impact The ABS presented a paper at a recent United Nations conference on how water accounts can contribute to our understanding of climate change.
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	Recent and upcoming releases ABS environment and energy publications released in the last six months or due for release in the next six months.
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	Water use on Australian farms According to this publication released in March 2008, irrigation of grazing pasture accounted for more than a quarter of water used on crops and pastures in 2005-06.
	Gross value of irrigated agricultural production This paper proposes an improved methodology for the estimating the Gross Value of Irrigated Agricultural Production (GVIAP).
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	Alternative view of energy supply activity This research paper examines ways of providing more detailed statistics on the country's electricity and gas supply.
	Energy supply survey ABS will survey businesses in the energy supply industries in 2008-09 with results expected to be published in late 2009.
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	Valuing Australia's environment course Open to people outside the ABS for the first time in July 2008, this one day course focuses on the emerging discipline of environmental accounting.
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	Water and the Murray-Darling Basin This publication will bring together a range of water, social, environmental and economic statistics relating to the Murray-Darling Basin region.
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	Review of ABS NRM Survey CEES is reviewing the ABS Natural Resource Management Survey.
	Changes to environmental household statistics Three new publications will provide environmental information on households. Sample size reductions will affect household data collected in 2008 and 2009.
	Other news Includes news about two new directors for CEES, NatStats conference 2008 and how to find ABS statistics on the website.
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