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Unless or until Australia has an emissions trading scheme, the government should specify that a proportion of its emissions reduction target must be met by investing in tropical forest retention programs, says a carbon policy expert.

• Industry group queries 'misleading' NSW NOx claim
  
• ACT emission goals out of reach without new measures
  
• DNV issues CCS guideline
  
• NZ Prime Minister launches greenhouse and agriculture alliance

• 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

The Chicago Climate Exchange inspired the Coalition's soil carbon push, but exchange prices for soil carbon and other offsets have collapsed – and the scheme rules out creating credits in low-rainfall areas.

How can the world prevent deforestation in tropical areas for farmland, if there is no room to further expand agriculture in temperate zones?

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