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The House of Representatives today formally accepted the Carbon Farming Initiative bill as amended by the Senate, with Shadow Climate Change Minister Greg Hunt affirming that a future Coalition Government would not repeal the scheme.

Despite Coalition opposition, the Senate has passed with amendments the Government's carbon farming legislation and a bill to underpin the nation's carbon registry.

As the Senate debates 'carbon farming' legislation, the Gillard Government has released draft supporting regulations that specify activities that can create offsets under the scheme.

A bill before Queensland's Parliament introduces landfill levies and a product stewardship regime and fast-tracks new rules for coal seam gas water discharges and land-based carbon projects.

• R.M. Williams goes in 'boots and all' on carbon credits
  
• Melbourne City Council opts for low-emissions asphalt
  
• Xstrata seeks approval to double size of NT mine

• Victoria confirms energy efficiency scheme change
  
• Comment sought on new "carbon farming" activities
  
• Victorian agencies back new emissions calculator

• Carbon farming bills head to the Senate; Greens support likely
  
• EPA Victoria sets out what it wants from data analysts
  
• NSW specifies terms for coal ash and slag reuse
  
• Combet's climate ads plan slammed

With Parliament scheduled to debate the Carbon Farming bill today, Norton Rose climate lawyer Elisa de Wit cautions that businesses still lack crucial information on how the scheme will operate.

• 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.