Abbott says the world is moving towards Direct Action style policies..
He's full of sh*t.
Australia has been drafted in to help design an emissions trading scheme for China, the world's biggest polluter. A deal announced in Canberra on Thursday will see the Australian National University take leadership of a program that will analyse pollution data provided by China and allow Chinese university researchers to examine Australia's experience of the carbon tax and transition to an emissions trading scheme. China is aiming for a full national emissions trading scheme by 2015. The program, known as the "Australia-China research program on market mechanisms for climate change policy", will team Australian researchers with those from three provincial universities in China and the Beijing Institute of Technology. The University of New South Wales and Melbourne University will also take part. Advertisement The deal comes less than a month after China launched the first of seven pilot emissions trading schemes.
