Australia is gearing up to import greenhouse gases from some of Asia’s biggest emitters as the government introduces new laws that will allow international pollutions to be buried in carbon capture and storage projects in local waters for the first time.
Japan and South Korea, backed by the gas industry and International Energy Agency, have been lobbying Australian government to allow shipments of carbon pollution and other marine waste to bypass restrictions implemented in 1972 under the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, known as the London Protocol.
