Australia's emissions-trading row: Cap, trade and block  

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Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 393 no. 8660 (Dec. 2009), page 31.
Topik: Australia; Kevin Rudd; Malcolm Turnbull; Liberal Party; Climate Change

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KEVIN RUDD, Australia’s prime minister, has much political capital riding on his promise to tackle climate change. It helped him win power in 2007. He calls it “the great moral challenge of our generation”. His Labor government’s planned cap-and-trade scheme for carbon emissions is designed to force Australians to change the way they use energy. Mr Rudd was banking on Parliament’s approving it in time to give him clout at the Copenhagen climate talks that start on December 7th. Australia accounts for almost 1.5% of global greenhouse-gas emissions; but its reliance on coal (also its biggest export by volume) for most of its electricity helps to make it one of the highest emitters per person. But on December 2nd Parliament rejected his scheme. This did more than dash Mr Rudd’s hopes of leading the world on climate-change reform. It set Australia up for a possible early election on the issue. The upset was triggered by two weeks of turmoil in the conservative Liberal Party, the main member of the opposition coalition. Having passed the lower house of Parliament, the climate legislation was stuck in the Senate, the upper house, where the government lacks a majority. In August an unlikely alliance of Greens (who thought the scheme too weak), the coalition and two independents rejected it. Malcolm Turnbull, the Liberal leader, then persuaded his party to strike a deal with the government to make the scheme more business-friendly. To start in 2011, it set targets to cut carbon emissions by 5% of 2000 levels by 2020, or 25% depending on post-Copenhagen global action.

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