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• Australia praised for stance on international transport emissions
  
• 'All our hopes rest on the U.S. and China', says Turnbull
  
• EPA Victoria and Global Sustainability issue new offsets guide
  
• Don't make RET a bargaining chip, implores Clean Energy Council
  
• Esperance port changes plea over lead debacle
  
• Australian scientists sound warning in new ice and climate change reports

• Orica tries again to export HCB waste
  
• ESAA to Tasmania – congratulations, we don't like feed-in tariffs either
  
• Alliance calls for 'green new deal'
  
• Ferguson launches geothermal industry plan
  
• SA seeks EPBC Act approval for 'worst-case scenario' seawater flooding
  
• Emissions must peak by 2015, IPCC chief tells UN talks

• Woodside's offshore processing claim – carbon leakage or pre-existing economics?
  
• IEA warns of 6°C rise
  
• SA Parliament passes bag ban bill, EPHC issues bag trial report
  
• Ministers release wind farm report
  
• AIGN issues climate briefs
  
• Recyclers welcome NSW waste levy boost

• Bligh flags new clean energy office, but no new resources
  
• Many data gaps to fill, says CSIRO climate change and fisheries study
  
• Coastal climate study urges changes to planning and approval processes
  
• Pew Centre issues guide to McCain and Obama climate policies
  
• World Bank boosts renewables spending, APEC to study urban use of renewables

Professor Ross Garnaut this morning handed to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd an all-embracing set of policy proposals to combat climate change. Garnaut warned that a failure by this generation to deal with climate change 'would haunt humanity until the end of time'.

• High emissions scenario could lead to 5°C warming by 2070
  
• Queensland minister launches 'low carbon' diet campaign
  
• Government and Opposition shadow box on transport fuels
  
• ACF calls for stronger renewables target
  
• AWU chief warns of jobs going offshore
  
• Xstrata refers open-cut coal mine to Rudd Government

Treasury tells Rudd to put Australia 'on a clean energy footing' * Wong says we will set an interim target, as UN climate change chief urges major emitters to deploy climate change 'Marshall plan' * Victoria's Hazelwood power plant a cleaner fossil fuels case study as global energy agency suggests replacing or upgrading more than a third of the world's coal-fired capacity



* NSW environment group weighs in against NSW power industry privatisation * Program offers industry a 'low-risk' chance to test sustainability, Garrett says * 6-star green building flurry continues * Wood waste power plant proposed for WA

The head of the UN has called for 'sweeping, concerted action now', as the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns even if greenhouse gas emissions peaked by 2015, temperatures would increase by up to 2.4°C and sea levels would eventually rise up to 1.4 metres – without factoring in melting ice. (plus extracts, audio)