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2010: Prime Minister delays emissions trading scheme
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Australien verschiebt Emissionshandel
Der im letzten Wahlkampf vom australischen Labor-Premierminister Rudd noch als Antwort auf die "größte moralische und wirtschaftliche Herausforderung unserer Zeit" propagierte Emissionshandel (Emission Trading Scheme, ETS) wird nun auf die Zeit nach der nächsten Wahl verschoben.
2009: Australia Rejects Climate Cap-and-Trade Bill
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2009-08-12 en
Australian Senate Rejects Rudd's Cap and Trade Emissions Plan
Australia's Senate rejected the government's climate-change legislation, forcing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to amend the bill or call an early election.
Senators voted 42 to 30 against the law, which included plans for a carbon trading system similar to one used in Europe.
Australia, the world's biggest coal exporter, was proposing to reduce greenhouse gases by between 5 percent and 15 percent of 2000 levels in the next decade.