Expert downplays carbon tax price rises

The carbon tax debate raged on in Canberra this morning as a visiting European Union carbon price expert declared people would see little impact on their cost of living under the scheme. The 500 million people in European Union countries have lived with an emissions trading scheme since 2005. Jill Duggan, a carbon price expert from the EU’s Directorate-General for Climate Action, says the scheme has created more jobs and was easier to implement than first feared. Read theĀ full article.