Climate change ‘offset system’ was ready to go for June 2006
But Environment Minister John Baird's office says Liberal plan was 'buying billions of dollars of hot air credits from Russia instead of actually reducing greenhouse gas emissions.'
The Environment Department told former environment minister Rona Ambrose in April 2006 that by the following June the government could have in place an "offset system" to support the trading of greenhouse gas emissions credits, but to this day the government does not have such a system in place o...
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