South Korea’s carbon tax could prompt a regional emissions trading coalition

Joe Dalton

May 03, 2012

The South Korean Parliament has passed an emissions trading scheme (ETS) to be introduced in 2015, and Australian climate change campaigners say this strengthens the possibility of forming a regional trading coalition.

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