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• AGL boosts coal clean-up provisions by $69m
  
• Frydenberg introduces bill to axe networks appeal process
  
• NZ kicks off low-carbon economy inquiry

A new pollution bill would allow the government to set emission standards for products to protect health and the environment, or to meet international climate change obligations.

Three US lawsuits mark a new approach to climate change litigation, according to MinterEllison special counsel Sarah Barker.

Climate change will cause regional disruption, but concerns about large-scale influxes of 'climate refugees' are ill-founded, a Senate inquiry has been told.

The federal government has received a windfall donation of more than three million international carbon credits from a major waste company.

• Victoria launches $2m energy-from-waste fund
  
• Last chance to register projects for ERF auction
  
• Singapore signals carbon tax

A new Australian report downplays estimates that meeting Barrier Reef water quality targets will cost $8.2 billion and instead emphasises what can be achieved with $623 million.

Australia is well-positioned to link to other carbon markets and global climate action won't be stalled by US President-elect Donald Trump, says Peter Castellas of the Carbon Market Institute.

A new progress report on Great Barrier Reef protection efforts has come under fire for ignoring findings that $8.2 billion will be needed to satisfy water quality goals.

• Queensland pitches to become biofutures hub
  
• New corporate alliance promotes sustainable fuels
  
• Greens push for $2bn biodiversity fund
  
• Environmental crime report says Indonesia laundering illegal timber