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• Government delays green tax breaks scheme
  
• Expect 'modest' abatement from forests and soils, CSIRO tells Senate
  
• NZ wind farm decision-makers obliged to consider 'national interest'
  
• Don't scapegoat renewables, Climate Institute says
  
• Major emitters to meet next week

Climate Minister Greg Combet today introduced legislation to establish the Government's 'carbon farming' offsets regime – taking up Garnaut's suggestion to relax restrictions on creating offsets – and also introduced a bill formalising the registry that will track carbon trades.

• Plenty of scope to harmonise waste classification rules, analysis shows
  
• Linking rural offsets to a trading scheme crucial to build demand, study says
  
• EPBC bills on marine parks, alpine grazing go before parliament

Sequestration projects by farmers and foresters would receive a huge boost under changes to the Carbon Farming Initiative proposed today by Professor Ross Garnaut, who wants it linked with the mooted price regime but warns it won't deliver cut-price carbon to companies.

• Carbon Trust certifies NAB's 'carbon neutral' status
  
• Mobil seeks approval to export 10,000 tonnes of hazardous waste
  
• Combet seeks to calm farm sector fears, as Garnaut readies land-use paper
  
• Government to host e-waste forums

Farmers are still ambivalent about a price on carbon, but if the Gillard Government doesn't introduce a pricing mechanism then taxpayers should fund the purchase of farm-based credits, the National Farmers Federation says.

Commercial timber plantation owners say proposed rules for a Government carbon credits regime will lock them out, but the carbon sink forestry and landfill sectors have praised the scheme's design.

• Challenge to Garrett ship scuttling permit to be heard in May
  
• Rann appoints new environment minister
  
• UK Budget provides for £2 billion Green Investment Bank
  
• Wong launches water recycling centre
  
• No liabilities imposed on agriculture, climate department tells Senate inquiry
  
• Landmark EPBC Act assessment released

• RET exemption workshops on offer
  
• Australian company seeks PNG carbon credits
  
• Miliband: UN talks 'a parallel universe' to major emitters forum
  
• New U.S. broadband push includes 'smart grid' goal

Hunger-strike farmer wins right to High Court hearing; High Court to rule on watchdog NGO's tax status; and World Economic Forum issues energy efficiency report.