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Global emissions might need to peak within five years, shadow environment minister Peter Garrett said last night. (includes audio)

China has given a lukewarm endorsement of the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate at the partnership’s second ministerial meeting in New Delhi.

And despite 2008 shaping up as a crucial year for international climate change negotiations, representatives at last week’s New Delhi meeting agreed not to hold another ministerial-level meeting until 2009.

Gore and IPCC share Nobel Peace Prize (with video); Turnbull names Gunns mill expert panel; Woodside gets clearance for Pluto LNG plant on Burrup; NSW seeks comment on Gosford alternative waste treatment plan.

The Commonwealth Bank, Macquarie Bank and St George Bank are among a minority of Australia’s largest companies that refused to participate in this year’s international Carbon Disclosure Project, results released yesterday in New York show.

New Zealand will begin phasing-in emissions trading from the start of next year, with all major sectors, including agriculture, progressively included by 2013.

Australia will contribute up to $30 million to a project that aims to protect more than 200,000 hectares of peatland in Indonesia's Kalimantan region, with BHP Billiton also pledging its support.

The federal government says it has committed $3.4 billion to the fight against climate change, but its spending so far constitutes only a tiny fraction of the federal budget, shadow environment minister Peter Garrett t told the National Press Club in Canberra today.