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Aussies back CO2 cuts but unaware on ETS

Pollsters Nielsen interviewed 1,400 people for the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper and found 67 per cent of Australians would cut emissions and 68 per cent were willing to pay more.

A total of 77 per cent of respondents said Australia should cut emissions unilaterally.

Most Australians believe we should be pushing ahead with a greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme regardless of whether other countries do the same, according to a poll.

But six out of ten interviewees confessed to having little or no understanding of how an emissions trading scheme might work in practice.

On Wednesday, the government released a green paper spelling out how a domestic emissions trading scheme would work.

On Sunday, Kevin Rudd’s launched a multi-million dollar awareness campaign to explain the basics of an ETS in the country.