A healthy environment and a strong economy can co-exist, and Australia intends to step up efforts to tackle climate change, Environment Minister Greg Hunt will tell a clean energy summit in China on Tuesday, trying to re-assert the nation's eco-credentials on the world stage after Tony Abbott's removal as prime minister. Giving the keynote address at the Future of Energy Summit in Shanghai, Mr Hunt will stress Australia's moves to harness energy innovation, support renewable energy and cut greenhouse gasses. The speech will overturn the message implied by the Abbott government that strong climate change action is a threat to economic growth. "Underpinning our climate change and broader environment policy is the notion that a clean and healthy environment and a strong economy are equally important. They are not mutually exclusive - we do not have to choose one over the other. We can have both," Mr Hunt's speech notes say. 
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