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Treasury gave thumbs down to ETS intensity-based scheme
Treasury told the Government not to adopt an intensity-based scheme for the allocation of free carbon credits to heavy emitters.
Papers obtained by Carbon News under the Official Information Act show Treasury warned that an intensity approach would be expensive, and was inconsistent with the Kyoto agreement.
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