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Published online 13 November 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.1083

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Australian agency moves to calm climate row

Researcher will be allowed to publish his paper after making 'tiny' changes.

An Australian researcher involved in a censorship controversy will be allowed to publish a paper critical of cap-and-trade systems for controlling carbon emissions — but only after some changes are made to wording, the country's science agency has said.

Clive Spash, an ecological economist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Canberra, had an invited paper on the failings of emissions-trading schemes accepted by the journal New Political Economy earlier this year.

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