Australia to link with EU carbon market
31 Aug 2012

Greg Combet ... more flexibility.
Australia will scrap its planned floor price for carbon emissions and will link directly with the European Union's emissions trading system by 2018, says Climate Change Minister Greg Combet.
Australia, one of the world's highest per capita emitters of pollutants blamed for causing climate change, imposed a fixed 19.08 euros per tonne carbon tax on around 300 of its biggest polluting companies in July, covering around 60 per cent of emissions.
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