Bloomberg: Australia will release its medium- term targets for carbon emissions on Dec. 15, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said. The government will release a so-called White Paper in Canberra on the design of its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme and medium-term targets, Wong said in an e-mailed statement. Laws on the system will be released in early 2009, she said. “The global financial situation has heightened the importance of providing business certainty on the Carbon Pollution …