Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
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The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme was a proposed cap-and-trade system of Emissions trading for anthropogenic greenhouse gases, due to be introduced in Australia in 2010 by the Rudd government, as part of its Climate change policy. It marked a major change in the Energy policy of Australia. The policy began when the Australian Labor Party was in opposition and the six Labor-controlled states commissioned an independent review on Energy policy, the Garnaut Climate Change Review, which published a number of reports. Labor, after winning the federal election and forming a government, published a Green Paper for discussion and comment. The Federal Treasury then modelled some of the financial and economic impacts of the proposed scheme. The Rudd Government published a final white paper on 15 December 2008. The Government had announced that the legislation was intended to take effect in July 2010 and the legislation for the CPRS was introduced in parliament where it failed to gain adequate support and was twice rejected creating a double dissolution election trigger. After a bitter political debate which saw former opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull lose his leadership being replaced by the anti-CPRS Tony Abbott the now stymied CPRS idea was dubbed "a great big new tax" and the Rudd government failed to call an election on it as the idea lost public support. Labor had decided to defer the CPRS. In the election year of 2007, both the Liberal-led Coalition government and the Labor opposition promised to introduce carbon trading. Opposition leader Rudd commissioned the Garnaut Climate Change Review on 30 April, while Prime Minister John Howard announced his own plan on 4 June, after the final report of the Prime Ministerial Task Group on Emissions trading. Labor won the election on 24 November. The draft Garnaut Report, issued on 4 July, was only one of many inputs into the policy-making process. The Labor government issued a "Green Paper" on 16 July, describing the intended design of the carbon trading scheme. Draft legislation will be released in December 2008, to become law in 2009.
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