Date: 10-Dec-08
Country: AUSTRALIA
Author: James Thornhill
SYDNEY - The Australian government has endorsed a carbon emissions reduction target of 10 percent by 2020, following the introduction of a carbon trading scheme in 2010, the Australian Financial Review paper said on Wednesday.
A more ambitious 25 percent reduction target would be kept open as a possibility if the international community agrees to ambitious targets at a United Nations summit in Copenhagen at the end of 2009, the paper said without citing sources.
The government's top climate adviser Ross Garnaut said in a report published in September that Australia should aim to cut emissions by 5-10 percent by 2020.
(Editing by Adrian Bathgate)
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