The UK is now working with Australia to reduce carbon emissions.
Australia has joined the growing list of countries who are taking action to cut their carbon emissions.
This is a move which is providing increasing rigour for international momentum which aims to have a treaty signed by 2015 – a target known as the global binding climate treaty which was the goal agreed at the UN’s Durban conference last December.
Commenting on the introduction of a price on carbon by the Australian Government, UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Edward Davey said: