The Government will release its preferred policy package on managing climate change today.
It would be welcomed by reasonable people, Prime Minister Helen Clark said yesterday.
The international protocol was drawn up in 1997, designed to reduce and control the amount of greenhouse gases, believed by many to affect the world's climate.
If it is ratified by enough countries, it will come into force with binding effect in 2008.
Unions, employers and some other political parties have raised concerns that moves such as taxes on pollution would stifle economic growth and lead to job losses.
