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The National Farmers Federation, ACCI and the Minerals Council have all welcomed Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's decision to put the CPRS on hold, but others warn of investment uncertainty.

Farmers have 'footed the bill' for Australia's carbon reductions and should be fully compensated for government interventions that affect their property rights, National Farmers Federation president David Crombie said today.

Developed countries should jointly reduce 2020 emissions by "at least" 30% and halt global forest loss no later than 2030, but reaching a position on CCS will be difficult, say internal EU negotiating papers obtained by CE Daily.

The Coalition doesn't favour emissions trading or a carbon tax, but hasn't ruled out an energy efficiency trading scheme, shadow climate change minister Greg Hunt tells CE Daily.

Dumped Coalition leader Malcolm Turnbull today accused new leader Tony Abbott of not wanting to do anything about climate change, but Abbott's likely new climate spokesman Greg Hunt says it's time to look at what 'direct action' can deliver.

• Show us Morgan Stanley, Macfarlane insists
  
• NZ farmers push for exemption
  
• Wong heads to Spain
  
• Rudd to make urban funding conditional on climate measures

• Food and grocery sector releases sustainability report
  
• DCC seeks input on NGERS methodologies
  
• Victorian inquiry into soil carbon kicks off
  
• 'Coalition plans would turn CPRS surplus to deficit'
  
• 'I'll clear my diary': Boswell to NFF
  
• U.S. Senate bill hearings to begin
  
• SA seeks feedback on new licence structure

The Rudd Government should direct 1% of CPRS revenue to an adaptation fund, harness the 'full potential' of land managers and change scheme rules for carbon sink forests, says the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists.

Neither side has got it right on agriculture and excluding more sectors places a heavier burden on those that remain, says Peter Shergold, the chief architect of the Howard Government's trading scheme roadmap.

The Greens today released a comprehensive package of 12 bills they say would tackle the climate change challenge on all fronts – from native forest protection through to energy efficiency.