Chinese envoy in Australian tax talks
March 28, 2011, Monday
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AUSTRALIA'S plan to tax major industrial polluters for the carbon gas they produce will be discussed at climate change talks with Chinese officials this week, Climate Change Minister Greg Combet said.
China's climate change envoy Xie Zhenhua arrived in Australia yesterday for the trading partners' third bilateral talks on global warming.
"The Australian government's plan to introduce a carbon price would be a key focus of the discussions," Combet said. "We continue to work closely with the Chinese government and other major emitters to encourage concerted global action to address climate change."
The Australia government announced plans last month to introduce a carbon tax from July 1, 2012, that would be paid by large Australian industrial greenhouse gas emitters such as coal-fired power generators for every ton of carbon gas they release into the atmosphere.
The price per ton has yet to be announced. The tax would become the government's main tool to achieve its aim of reducing Australia's greenhouse gas emissions to at least 5 percent below 2000 levels by 2020.
Prime Minister Julian Gillard has said that China is doing more to reduce carbon emissions than Australia through such measures as replacing old and inefficient coal burning generators.
(AP)
China's climate change envoy Xie Zhenhua arrived in Australia yesterday for the trading partners' third bilateral talks on global warming.
"The Australian government's plan to introduce a carbon price would be a key focus of the discussions," Combet said. "We continue to work closely with the Chinese government and other major emitters to encourage concerted global action to address climate change."
The Australia government announced plans last month to introduce a carbon tax from July 1, 2012, that would be paid by large Australian industrial greenhouse gas emitters such as coal-fired power generators for every ton of carbon gas they release into the atmosphere.
The price per ton has yet to be announced. The tax would become the government's main tool to achieve its aim of reducing Australia's greenhouse gas emissions to at least 5 percent below 2000 levels by 2020.
Prime Minister Julian Gillard has said that China is doing more to reduce carbon emissions than Australia through such measures as replacing old and inefficient coal burning generators.
(AP)
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