Consultation prior to emission trading scheme: Wong
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Australia's Federal Climate Change Minister, Penny Wong, says the government will consult key interest groups prior to the introduction of an emissions trading scheme.
The climate change adviser, Ross Garnaut, says the scheme should start in 2010 but with a low target for the first two years.
The Australian Workers Union says the Government should delay the start of the scheme for about two years.
Senator Wong says the Government wants to stick to its 2010 target, but she says there will be consultation.
"That's the ambition, we said that before the (November 2007) election," she said.
"We recognise we have to get moving on this obviously we'll listen to what people have to say but that remains the ambition."
