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Key dates in the Australian govenmental response to climate change are included below. Note that all forward dates are speculative.
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2007 |
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| May | Prime Ministerial Task Group on Emissions Trading releases final report.
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December |
Final report of National Emissions Trading Task Force released on possible design of a national emissions trading scheme (ETS).
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12 December
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Australia ratifies Kyoto Protocol. |
2008 |
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4 February |
Garnaut Climate Change Review interim report released. |
11 March |
Kyoto Protocol comes into effect for Australia. |
20 March |
Garnaut Climate Change Review Emissions Trading Discussion Paper released.
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4 July
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Garnaut Climate Change Review Draft Final Report released. |
16 July |
Government Green Paper on Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) released.
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31 July |
Wilkins Review, Strategic Review of Australian Government Climate Change Programs, delivered to the Commonwealth.
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30 September |
Final report of Garnaut Climate Change Review delivered to Australian governments.
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30 October |
Treasury modelling of the CPRS released in Australia's low pollution future: the economics of climate change mitigation.
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15 December |
Release of Government White Paper on the CPRS.
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2009 |
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| 19 March | Joint Standing Committee on Treaties publishes Report 100 on the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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| 16 April | Senate Standing Committee on Economics publishes its report into the Exposure Draft of the CPRS legislation.
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| 4 May | Government announces new targets and measures, plus a new start date for the proposed CPRS.
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| 7 May | Senate Select Committee on Fuel and Energy publishes its interim report The CPRS: Economic cost without environmental benefit
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12 May |
Government publishes response to the recommendations of the Wilkins review.
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14 May |
Introduction of Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme legislation into Parliament.
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| 15 June | Senate Standing Committee on Economics publishes its final report on its inquiry into the CPRS legislation. Senate Select Committee on Climate Change also publishes its report.
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| 10 August | Coalition and Senator Xenophon release Frontier Economics modelling of the CPRS.
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| 13 August | Senate votes against CPRS legislation.
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| 22 October | Government reintroduces Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme legislation into Parliament.
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| 24 November | Government reaches an agreement with the Coalition over amendments to the CPRS legislation.
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| 2 December | CPRS Bills voted down in the Senate for a second time, creating a trigger for a double dissolution election.
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| 2010 | |
| 2 February | CPRS Bills introduced into the House of Representatives.
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| 19 February | Government releases Adapting to Climate Change - a position paper.
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| 27 April | Government announces that it will delay until after 2012 to introduce an emissions trading scheme. |
28 June |
Legislation to amend the Renewable Energy Targets scheme receives assent. |
27 September |
Prime Minister Gillard announces members on the new Multi-Party Climate Change Committee
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| 7 October | Government's Multi-Party Climate Change Committee releases its first communiqué. |
Sources:
Australian Government Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Green Paper, box 13.7, pp. 454–55 and Parliamentary Library.