FACTBOX: Australia firms likely to be affected by carbon scheme

(Reuters) - Australia on Monday committed to start the most sweeping carbon trade scheme outside Europe in mid-2010, as planned, despite business calls for a delay due to the global financial crisis.

Australia is already the world's fourth-highest carbon polluter per capita and emissions are forecast to rise sharply by 2020 unless it adopts an emissions trading scheme and a reduction target by the same year.

Here is a list of some of the companies likely to be affected by the new scheme. 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.

FOOD & DRINK:

-- Coca-Cola Amatil

-- Foster's Group

-- Goodman Fielder

-- Lion Nathan

ENERGY:

-- Caltex Australia

-- Contact Energy

-- Origin Energy

-- Santos

-- Woodside Petroleum

-- AGL Energy

MINING:

-- Alumina

-- BHP Billiton

-- OZ Minerals

-- Newcrest Mining

-- Rio Tinto

OTHER:

-- Amcor (packaging)

-- Boral (building materials)

-- Orica (explosives, paint)

-- Leighton Holdings (engineering, contracting)

-- Qantas Airways

-- Wesfarmers (retail conglomerate)

-- Woolworths (supermarkets)

STEEL:

-- BlueScope Steel

-- OneSteel

Sources: Carbon Disclosure Project, Australia and New Zealand report 2008 ( www.cdproject.net/reports.asp ). Citigroup Climate Change Report, Feb 2007 ( here )

(Editing by David Fogarty)