The long, painful path to an ETS

By The Age
Updated October 31 2014 - 1:08am, first published 12:20am

Australia today is in a better position to tackle climate change than it was at the start of the week – but only just. The climate-action agreement between the Abbott government and Clive Palmer's party is a positive development for several reasons. Before the deal was struck, Australia had no active strategy to tackle climate change – the threat United States President Barack Obama accurately says will "define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other".

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