FACTBOX: Which Australian firms are big carbon emitters?
(Reuters) - Australia issues a carbon Emissions Trading System options paper on Wednesday to help the country combat its greenhouse-gas emissions. It is already the world's largest carbon polluter per head of population.
The government says around 1,000 of Australia's biggest polluters will need to buy permits under an ETS, to be introduced by 2010, but it has not yet listed the names of these firms.
Here is a sector-by-sector list of some of the blue-chip companies that may be affected by the new scheme.*
FOOD AND BEVERAGE:
-- Coca-Cola Amatil
-- Foster's Group
-- Goodman Fielder
-- Lion Nathan
ENERGY:
-- Caltex Australia
-- Contact Energy
-- Origin Energy (electricity, LPG, natural gas, appliances)
-- Santos (oil and gas exploration)
-- Woodside Petroleum (petroleum exploration and production)
MINING:
-- Alumina
-- BHP Billiton
-- Oxiana
-- Newcrest Mining
-- Rio Tinto
OTHER:
-- AGL Energy (utilities, gas, electricity)
-- Amcor (packaging)
-- Boral (building materials)
-- Orica (mining, consumer products, chemicals)
-- Leighton Holdings (project development, contracting group)
-- Qantas Airways
-- Wesfarmers (retail conglomerate)
-- Woolworths (supermarkets)
STEEL MAKING:
-- BlueScope Steel
-- OneSteel
* These companies' exact carbon emissions are not known, but they all volunteered emissions data to the Carbon Disclosure Project. Several were also named by Citigroup as at risk because they have the highest operational exposure to carbon pricing.
Sources: Carbon Disclosure Project, Australia and New Zealand report 2007 (here)
Citigroup Climate Change Report, Feb 2007 (here
7.pdf) (Writing by Gillian Murdoch, Beijing Editorial Reference Unit, Editing by Mark Bendeich)
