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• Albanese lifts marine levy to cover spill costs
  
• EnergyAustralia seeks $100 million 'smart grid' grant
  
• Previous coastal planning assumptions 'no longer valid'
  
• EPA Victoria issues clean-up notice to Mobil
  
• Public comment invited on Zerogen CCS power plant project
  
• UN climate chief to step down, join KPMG

• Greens to make new bid to 'fix' RET
  
• Hunt hits back: where's Morgan Stanley CPRS report?
  
• IPCC rejects second attack on findings

The US EPA's formal finding that six greenhouse gases endanger public health and the environment, as world leaders gather in Copenhagen, demonstrates America's commitment to addressing climate change, according to the agency's administrator, Lisa Jackson.

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.

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.

Climate Change Minister Penny Wong has caved in to pressure from the Coalition, the Greens and sections of the renewables industry, instigating an inquiry into renewable energy certificate prices.

• Victoria introduces bill to phase out renewables scheme
  
• We want federal CCS cash for these projects, Queensland says
  
• How to fix a planet – Royal Society examines geoengineering options

• New Zealand consults on 2020 target
  
• Governments back national forum on local-level power generation
  
• Growth in SA wind power must be backed by network investment, report says
  
• Green Building Council releases new rating tool
  
• Gore set to fly in for regional summit
  
• Oxfam climate change report warns of food shortages

• SA to make more sites prepare water plans
  
• NSW finalises energy savings scheme rule
  
• No need for new NSW power plant, study says
  
• Flannery criticises industry’s ‘Precambrian’ attitudes
  
• SA issues guideline for waste-derived fuel
  
• NSW issues guidance on radioactive residues from sandmining

• Generators win extended exemption from EEO scheme
  
• Local government must lead in climate change fight, Combet says
  
• Coalition backs Greens call for stronger action on HFCs
  
• White House pushes green jobs benefits ahead of House vote (with video)
  
• Major economies climate talks wrap up in Mexico
  
• IEA warns of collapse in funding of renewables projects