Withdrawal of Bill
On 2 December 2009, the Senate failed to pass the CPRS, giving Kevin Rudd a potential reason for calling a double dissolution election.
On 27 April 2010, the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that the Government has decided to delay the implementation of the CPRS until after the current commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (which ends in 2012). The Government cited the lack of bipartisan support for the CPRS and slow international progress on climate action for the delay. The Prime Minister announced that the CPRS would be introduced only when there is greater clarity on the actions of other major economies including the US, China and India.
In June 2010, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Garrett, told Sky News Australia that he first learned of the scrapping of the CPRS when he read about it in a newspaper after being leaked by a Government source.
The delay on implementation of the CPRS drew some strong criticism of Kevin Rudd and the Labor Party from the Federal Opposition and from community and grassroots action groups such as GetUp.
On 5 April 2011, the former Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, stated that he believed it had been a mistake to delay the ETS during his term as Prime Minister of Australia.
In February 2011, the Gillard Government announced the Clean Energy Bill 2011, an emissions trading scheme in Australia to replace the CPRS. This bill was passed into law later that year, paving the way forward with a carbon tax to be introduced on 1 July 2012.
Read more about this topic: Australian Carbon Trading Scheme
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