Australia climate plan must be realistic: adviser | Environment | Reuters

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's planned emissions trading scheme and ambitions for a new post-Kyoto international climate pact must be cautious and realistic, says the government's chief climate adviser.

Ross Garnaut, asked by the center-left government to design an emissions trade scheme to make the $1 trillion economy less polluting, hands his final report to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd later on Tuesday.

"I am putting a pin in the delusion (that an ambitious agreement is possible)," Garnaut said in an interview published in the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper on Tuesday.