Sydney (Australia), 5 sep (EFE).-Australia and the European Union (EU) will try to link their systems of trade in emission of gaseous pollutants, said today the first Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.
After the meeting with the President of the European Community, Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, Gillard said both agreed to initiate a dialogue to discuss the measures “that can be taken together” with the aim of unify trading systems of CO2 emissions “in the future”.
“Both Australia as the European Union recognize that carbon markets are the most effective way of reducing the gases that cause the effect greenhouse and thus create jobs in the clean energy sector,” said Gillard in joint in Canberra press conference
EU pioneered a GHG emissions trading system (ETS) greenhouse is six years.
At the same time, the Australian Government has intended to adopt a new tax of about 23 Australian dollars (around 17.2 euros) by emission of one tonne of CO2, which already has the necessary votes in Parliament, from the next year.
This tax will annually increase by 2.5% in real terms until 2015, year that give passage to a scheme of trade in emissions similar to that of the EU where the international market will set the price.
Durao Barroso considered that the trade in emission of gaseous pollutants is the “most effective” way to combat climate change, in addition to become “a great environmental opportunity” of doing business, the local news agency AAP.
The two leaders also discussed issues related to the global economy, the liberalization of markets and a possible Treaty of cooperation between Australia and the countries that form the EU.
This agreement is expected to sign next month, “will serve as a framework for the different areas of our flourishing cooperation”, he said the President of the EC.
Durao Barroso began yesterday, with the Commissioner of the climate, Connie Hedegaard, an official visit in two days, Australia while next Wednesday will travel to New Zealand where it will stay until 9 September.
The tour focuses on a greater economic cooperation in forums like the G20 (a group of developed and emerging countries) and continue talks to curb change climate.
Next to Hedegaard, will participate in the Forum of the Pacific Islands from 6 to 7 September in Auckland (New Zealand), where they will meet with leaders of countries in the Pacific, for which the European Union (EU) is the second largest donor of aid.
The Secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon (d), and the first Australian Minister, Julia Gillard (i), greet on September 3, 2011, in Canberra (Australia). EFE
