US eyes Australia's carbon emissions scheme
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A senior American diplomat says US climate change officials are looking to see what they can learn from the way Australia is tackling carbon emissions.
US President-elect Barack Obama has vowed to set up a cap and trade scheme to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.
Edgard Kagan, the economic counsellor at the US Embassy in Canberra, says US officials are awaiting with interest the Federal Government's carbon reduction scheme white paper, which is due in just under a fortnight.
"There's a great deal of interest within the parts of the US Government that deal with climate change issues in what Australia's doing, because there are tremendous similarities between the US and Australian economies, both in geographic scale and structure of the economy," he said.
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