Australia’s parliament endorsed the world’s first national scheme that regulates the creation and trade of carbon credits from farming and forestry on Monday, to complement government plans to put a price on carbon emissions from mid-2012.
This will affect, among others, Anglo American, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Xstrata, all major coal producers in Australia.
See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=11132&l=1.