Australian Senate defeats carbon trading bill
Source: The Guardian
Defeat of carbon trading bill delivers blow to government that had hoped to set an example at international climate change talks in Copenhagen
Toni O'Loughlin in Sydney guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 2 December 2009 09.35 GMT
Australia has dumped its plan to cut the nation's carbon emissions for the second time this year after climate sceptics seized control of the conservative opposition.
The Senate, where the government of the prime minister, Kevin Rudd, does not hold a majority, rejected 41-33 his administration's proposal for Australia to become one of the first countries to install a so-called cap-and-trade system to slash the amount of heat-trapping pollution that industries pump into the air.
...But parliamentarians from the Australian Greens party welcomed the demise of the Labor government's carbon emissions trading scheme, calling it "a dirty deal, an exercise in double think, and a deceipt on the Australian people". LinkHere
Defeat of carbon trading bill delivers blow to government that had hoped to set an example at international climate change talks in Copenhagen
Toni O'Loughlin in Sydney guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 2 December 2009 09.35 GMT
Australia has dumped its plan to cut the nation's carbon emissions for the second time this year after climate sceptics seized control of the conservative opposition.
The Senate, where the government of the prime minister, Kevin Rudd, does not hold a majority, rejected 41-33 his administration's proposal for Australia to become one of the first countries to install a so-called cap-and-trade system to slash the amount of heat-trapping pollution that industries pump into the air.
...But parliamentarians from the Australian Greens party welcomed the demise of the Labor government's carbon emissions trading scheme, calling it "a dirty deal, an exercise in double think, and a deceipt on the Australian people". LinkHere
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