Agence France-Presse: Australia on Tuesday shelved plans for a carbon trading scheme to cut greenhouse gas emissions until at least 2013, blaming the slow pace of global action and an obstructive opposition. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who has described climate change as “the great moral challenge of our generation”, said plans for a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) were on hold after they failed to pass through parliament. “The opposition decided to back-flip on its historical commitment to …