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Carbon Emissions Green Paper
The green paper outlines the Australian Government’s approach to the design of a national emissions trading scheme – Australia’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. The paper identifies the key design decisions that are required, discusses alternative approaches to dealing with the key questions to be resolved, and indicates preferences among options. In preparing the green paper, the Government has drawn on work undertaken by the former Government’s Task Group on Emissions Trading (TGET), the states and territories’ National Emissions Trading Taskforce (NETT) and the Garnaut Climate Change Review. Lessons learned from the establishment of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme and other schemes have helped shape the approaches proposed in this green paper. Importantly, the development of options has been heavily influenced by extensive consultations with industry, community groups and other stakeholders over the past year. Stakeholder feedback is now sought on all elements of the green paper and this feedback will inform the Government’s decisions on final scheme design. The Government’s intention is that a white paper incorporating those decisions and an exposure draft of legislation for Australia’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme will be released by the end of 2008.
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Car fleet
Where a company has operational control over a car fleet, this fleet may come under the GHG reporting requirements. Check out www.greenvehicleguide.gov.au
Materiality
Refers to the material impact of emissions measurements on the overall emission profile of a facility and/or corporation.
Responsible party
Do you have to report your greenhouse gas emissions? Facilities which are owned by a joint venture or partnership, but where a third party has operational control, are still required to report greenhouse gas emissions.