Australia sets carbon tax to fight climate change
- Published: 10/07/2011 at 05:32 PM
- Online news: World
Australia announced plans on Sunday to tax carbon pollution at Aus$23 (US$24.74) per tonne to help battle climate change, as it moved towards creating the region's biggest emissions trading scheme.
File photo shows a coal-fired power station in the Hunter Valley, near Sydney. Australia has said carbon pollution would be taxed at Aus$23 (US$24.74) per tonne to help battle climate change, in one of the nation's biggest economic reforms in years.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard said there would be a fixed price on carbon pollution, blamed for global warming, from next year before an emissions trading scheme was introduced in 2015.
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