Australian Broadcasting Corporation: New South Wales is calling on the Federal Government to make Sydney the base for the National Carbon Market. The State Government says Sydney should be the hub for carbon trading once the emissions trading scheme is up and running. The Minister for Climate Change and the Environment, Verity Firth, says the state is an ideal base. “Not a lot of people are aware but the Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme, which was introduced in 2003, was one of the world’s first …