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Jacob Shteyman

Trump won't curb Australia's climate crusade: Albanese

Anthony Albanese says Australia will "continue to take action on climate change". (Michael Gorton/AAP PHOTOS)

Australia has an enormous opportunity to speed up investment in clean energy after newly-minted president Donald Trump ended the United States' embrace of renewables, the prime minister says.

Within hours of becoming president, Mr Trump has already pulled the US - the world's second-largest greenhouse gas emitter - out of the Paris climate agreement, vowed to halt new offshore wind farm approvals and signed orders speeding up drilling for fossil fuels.

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