This Discussion Paper has been prepared by the National Emissions Trading Taskforce, which reports to the Premiers and Chief Ministers of all Australian States and Territories. The paper sets out a possible design for a national emissions trading scheme. The scheme is designed to achieve long term reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in an economically...

This report commissioned for the National Emissions Trading Taskforce describes the impacts of the emissions trading scheme on the electricity market. In this report we describe the impacts of the emissions trading scheme on the electricity market. Section 2 of the report describes the methodology and the assumptions used to estimate the impacts on the...