Foreign Minister
The foreign minister appeared on the ABC's Q and A program last night and says he made a mistake in delaying the scheme until 2013 despite calling climate change 'the greatest moral challenge of our time.'
He says the decision had been swayed by the roadblock faced in the Senate, which had twice blocked legislation setting up the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
But Mr Rudd says he'd also faced the difficulty of placating party colleagues, who he says wanted to kill the ETS completely.
