CANBERRA: Australia and New Zealand leaders agreed Monday to investigate linking the near neighbors' greenhouse gas emissions trading schemes in the future as a means of reducing global emissions and bringing their economies closer.
New Zealand recently introduced a national scheme in which polluters trade permits allowing them to emit carbon dioxide and other gases, while Australia's plan to introduce a similar scheme is bogged down in a bitter political row.
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