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• Rann sets 60MW limit on feed-in tariff scheme
  
• Gillard has put Greens in 'driver's seat', Abbott says
  
• High Court to hear case on farmer's carbon rights
  
• Nicholas Stern meets with key politicians
  
• SA doing best at waste recovery: NSW report

If Labor returns to power, it would establish a climate change committee and give the Greens access to Treasury officials, under the terms of a deal struck this morning.

The energy industry, not taxpayers, should pay for the Federal Government's smart grid project, and more must be done to tackle regulations 'hostile' to cogeneration and energy efficiency, says Gavin Gilchrist, director of energy efficiency consultancy Big Switch.

• Free CE Daily NGERs webinar
  
• States overlooking non-industrial air pollution: business group
  
• Victoria establishes solar energy office and working group

The IPCC should adjust the way it communicates scientific uncertainty about climate change and reform its management structure, according to an international report presented overnight to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

• Majority of Australians wary of industry climate 'scare campaigns'
  
• Tasmanian report outlines climate change effects
  
• NSW wind farm court challenge averted

• Tasmanian EPA to conduct 40 'voluntary' audits
  
• KPMG study looks at WA dam desalination options
  
• Geocycle secures permit to import hazardous waste
  
• WA glass crushing plant open for business
  
• Green Building Council offers master classes
  
• Consultant sought for Northern Australia climate change study

A bill introduced today into the ACT Legislative Assembly sets targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 40% below 1990 levels by 2020 and peak per capita emissions by 2013, while a separate report calls for east coast cooperation on carbon pricing.

• Queensland minister rejects Cougar Energy report
  
• ACT releases bill to remove 'needless' EIS requirements
  
• Victoria issues review of controls on alternative water supplies
  
• NSW invites applications for Peter Cullen water scholarship

• Dust settles and OneSteel Whyalla gets sustainability licence
  
• Greens and two independents line up to back climate action
  
• CO2 Australia writes-off $5.5m in WA plantings in wake of CPRS collapse
  
• Sartor's air pollution package misses the point: TEC