Australian Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said here on Thursday Australia will announce climate change targets next week.
Wong noted that targets to be announced next week would be fundamental to the design of the scheme.
Australia is under pressure to stick to an ambitious 25-percent-emission cut by 2020 as a United Nations climate conference in Poland draws to an end.
"In terms of what Australia will do, I have said clearly that we will be announcing our target range next week with the white paper," Wong told ABC Radio.
She said some progress was being made in technical groups on some issues at the UN climate conference and the key issue was to establish clear processes for the forthcoming Copenhagen agreement next year, the successor to Kyoto.
"Our targets are not simply words. They are real targets that are backed by the government's approach to a comprehensive CPRS," she said.
Source:Xinhua
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