CLIMATE: Release of White Paper, 'Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme: Australia's Low Pollution Future'

The Australian Government has released the White Paper Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme: Australia's Low Pollution Future. The paper outlines the final design of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme and the medium-term, target range for reducing carbon pollution. This paper follows from the Green Paper, released in July 2008, which canvassed options on the design on the scheme. It takes into account the outcomes of a broad consultation and input from more than one thousand submissions.