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• LNG industry puts hand up for possible sector agreement
  
• Tasmania reports in on emissions
  
• Greens pressure Rudd on renewables
  
• Wood recovery rate climbing
  
• Time to broaden packaging covenant's waste focus?
  
• Ferguson welcomes first backers for CCS institute

Next year's Copenhagen meeting will not be climate policy Nirvana, Australia's climate change chief Martin Parkinson has told CE Daily. In a speech in Canberra yesterday, Parkinson said the nation's emissions reduction target will not be the main driver of economic cost and cautioned that trading will fix the biggest market failure, but complementary measures will still be essential.

Negotiators and climate policy glitterati from all over the world will descend on the Polish city of Poznan from December 1 to 12, with ministers in attendance for the final days. What can we expect? CE Daily talks to World Business Council for Sustainable Development chief Bjorn Stigson, WWF's global climate initiative head Kim Carstensen and Kinesis director Nick Rowley. Plus a guide to the intricacies of the UN talks.

The financial crisis should not delay development of measures to boost global investment in low emissions solutions, the Rudd Government has told the UN, while also offering its views on carbon capture and storage, deforestation, technology transfer and carbon markets.

Work should start at climate talks in Poznan on deciding a mid-term global goal, not just a long-term one, says Australia in a newly-released paper to the UN. And, as the Rudd Government prepares to put its 2020 target range on the table, it wants more countries to do the same.

• NSW fudges on energy efficiency scheme
  
• Senate pressures Government on housing scheme sustainability
  
• Coalition Senator hits back at Climate Institute
  
• Energy revolution costly but possible, says IEA chief
  
• Victoria launches water conservation campaign
  
• UK Exchequer includes green initiatives in rescue plan

• What's still on Rudd's 2008 climate 'to do' list
  
• WA studies trading impact on LNG industry
  
• Norske Skog set to embark on River Murray salinity offset project
  
• Obama's environment transition team bunkers down

Climate policymakers spend a great deal of time on energy systems, with 'too little focus' on terrestrial carbon, Reserve Bank board member – and Terrestrial Carbon Group member – Warwick McKibbin told a Lowy Institute forum yesterday, while group convenor Ralph Ashton said 'about 25% of the solution' to climate change can come from land use measures. (plus audio)

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama yesterday promised 'a new chapter' in America's leadership on climate change, starting with a federal cap and trade scheme. The work of those attending next month's UN talks in Poznan is 'vital to the planet', he said. (six minute video)

• Modelling has been misrepresented, says Climate Institute
  
• Energy network businesses call for embedded generators to pay full costs
  
• Garrett opens e-waste plant in Sydney, plans for more on hold
  
• NZ splits climate among two ministers – transport fuels tax a prospect?