Fed: Emissions trading on track for 2010 start

AAP General News (Australia)
12-04-2008
Fed: Emissions trading on track for 2010 start

Plans to start carbon emissions trading in 2010 are on track after key senators indicated
their support for the move.

The federal opposition tried to delay the scheme by at least a year by moving a motion
in the Senate today.

But the motion failed when Labor .. the Greens and two cross-bench senators ganged
up to defeat it.

Labor may have to rely on all seven cross-bench senators to pass the legislation through
parliament next year.

The federal opposition wants to delay the scheme because of the global financial crisis
.. and to allow for international climate negotiations to progress.

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