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2007
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Prime Ministerial Task Group on Emissions Trading releases final report.
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December
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Final report of National Emissions Trading Task Force released on possible design of a national emissions trading scheme (ETS).
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12 December
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Australia ratifies Kyoto PrThe Kyoto Protocolotocol.
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2008
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4 February
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Garnaut Climate Change Review interim report released.
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11 March
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Kyoto Protocol comes into effect for Australia.
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20 March
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Garnaut Climate Change Review Emissions Trading Discussion Paper released.
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4 July
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Garnaut Climate Change Review Draft Final Report released.
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16 July
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Government Green Paper on Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) released.
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31 July
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Wilkins Review, Strategic Review of Australian Government Climate Change Programs, delivered to the Commonwealth.
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30 September
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Final report of Garnaut Climate Change Review delivered to Australian governments.
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30 October
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Treasury modelling of the CPRS released in Australia's low pollution future: the economics of climate change mitigation.
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15 December
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Release of Government White Paper on the CPRS.
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2009
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| 19 March |
Joint Standing Committee on Treaties publishes Report 100 on the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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| 16 April |
Senate Standing Committee on Economics publishes its report into the Exposure Draft of the CPRS legislation.
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| 4 May |
Government announces new targets and measures, plus a new start date for the proposed CPRS.
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| 7 May |
Senate Select Committee on Fuel and Energy publishes its interim report The CPRS: Economic cost without environmental benefit
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12 May
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Government publishes response to the recommendations of the Wilkins review.
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14 May
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Introduction of Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme legislation into Parliament.
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| 15 June |
Senate Standing Committee on Economics publishes its final report on its inquiry into the CPRS legislation.
Senate Select Committee on Climate Change also publishes its report.
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| 10 August |
Coalition and Senator Xenophon release Frontier Economics modelling of the CPRS.
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| 13 August |
Senate votes against CPRS legislation.
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| 22 October |
Government reintroduces Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme legislation into Parliament.
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| 24 November |
Government reaches an agreement with the Coalition over amendments to the CPRS legislation.
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| 2 December |
CPRS Bills voted down in the Senate for a second time, creating a trigger for a double dissolution election.
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| 2010 |
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| 2 February |
CPRS Bills introduced into the House of Representatives.
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| 19 February |
Government releases Adapting to Climate Change - a position paper.
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2011
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1 July
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Proposed CPRS scheduled to commence.
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2015
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First scheduled public strategic review of CPRS by independent expert committee.
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