May 3rd, 2009 - Reuters
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CANBERRA, May 4 (Reuters) - Australia's government willdelay a planned carbon emissions trading scheme by a year tomid-2011, and will offer more support to major pollutingindustries to help them adapt, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd saidon Monday.
The government would keep the country's interim 2020emissions reduction target, currently for a cut of between 5and 15 percent based on 2000 levels, but would increase it to25 percent if the world agreed to similar reductions, Ruddsaid.
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