Reuters: Australia’s plan to impose a carbon emissions trade scheme on its US$1 trillion economy within two years will not be affected by global financial turmoil, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said on Tuesday. Wong, in an interview with Reuters, said the cost of doing nothing or delaying the regime’s planned mid-2010 introduction would rapidly spiral with Australia already in the grip of long-term drought and climate change. “The costs of failing to act on climate change will be …