Worst offending companies will have to pay tax penalty from next yearAustralia, one of the world's worst per capita carbon emitters, yesterday passed landmark laws to introduce a tax on polluting industries, capping a period of unprecedented political turmoil that toppled a prime minister and an opposition leader.
The vote in the Senate, the parliamentary upper house, makes Australia only the second country outside the European Union to embrace a nationwide carbon-capping scheme. Advocates of climate change action hope it will give new impetus to calls for a global agreement at next month's UN talks in Durban.
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