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• Rudd urges global ‘grand bargain’ on climate change
  
• EPA Victoria: ‘we’ve got an open mind on hazardous waste reforms’
  
• Queensland EPA issues emissions report card

As the G8 summit looms, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair releases a report telling G8 leaders the world needs a radical solution – involving cleaner coal and nuclear power – that steers the world away from carbon dependency.



Meanwhile, California outlines plans for a 30% emissions cut by 2020.

In the lead-up to next month's protest that aims to shut down Hunter Valley coal exports for 24 hours, one of the world's most eloquent cleaner coal critics spoke last week told a Sydney forum that climate change policies would be 'doomed to failure' if the world continues to exploit fossil fuel resources.



Commentator and journalist George Monbiot called for 'direct action', drawing on his recent experience when he and a band of activists invaded a new, open-cut coal mine in the UK.

• Carbon sink tax changes welcomed
  
• NSW gazettes waste exemptions
  
• NZ parliamentary committee proposes biofuels bill changes

• Ferguson tables CCS bills: 'liability lies where it falls'
  
• Marine oil spills bill goes before Parliament
  
• WA review native vegetation laws
  
• EU emissions fall slightly
  
• Shell urges CCS action, ex-BP chief says dismantle fossil fuel subsidies

• Garrett canvasses views on Anvil Hill coal mine decision
  
• Water diversions under EPBC Act scrutiny, says Wong
  
• Senate considers carbon sink forest tax concession
  
• Queensland proposes new housing standards
  
• Odour complaints lead to $25,000 fine
  
• NZ ministry issues summary of NZ trading bill changes
  
• Department of Climate Change offers graduate intake

• EPA Victoria prosecutes Mobil
  
• NZ parliamentary committee releases trading bill report
  
• Federal Court rejects EPBC challenge to Xstrata mine

UN climate chief Yvo de Boer has warned that proposals for a post-2012 global agreement "need to become much more targeted", at the end of two weeks of climate talks in Bonn.



Meanwhile, the Climate Institute has urged Australia to allocate some of its permit auction revenue to developing countries and Greenpeace International has accused Australia of 'nitpicking and road-blocking' at the talks.

• Time to upgrade NSW waste policy, auditor-general says
  
• 'Environmental professionals must spotlight government failures', EIANZ told
  
• Science academies urge governments to move faster on carbon capture and storage
  
• NPI issues new reporting guide

• Toyota to start local hybrid Camry production in 2010
  
• Reactions to Garnaut's fixed carbon price proposal
  
• U.S. climate bill stalls
  
• G8 energy meeting wrap – we need to spend $45 trillion by 2050
  
• Australian carbon offset provider in new international alliance
  
• Japan's PM flags cap and trade scheme