CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's opposition coalition voted on Tuesday to seek to delay legislation for the government's carbon-trading scheme, saying the process should wait until after the Copenhagen climate-change summit in December.
Australia's government is legislating now to set up a scheme that would introduce carbon-trading in July 2011 as a way of cutting greenhouse emissions by up to 25 percent on 2000 levels if global climate talks agree on deep cuts.
The carbon-trade plan is one of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's key reforms and a central plank of Australia's efforts to fight global warming, but the government is struggling to find the seven extra votes it needs in parliament's upper house Senate.
(Reporting by Jonathan Standing; Editing by Mark Bendeich)
