Wednesday, August 13, 2008

AUSTRALIANS WANT EMISSIONS ACTION

Two public polls released this week show that 8 out of 10 Australians
support the government's decision to introduce the world's biggest carbon
trading schemes in 2010.

The Labor Party won power with a strong anti-emissions policy and set up
the first-ever Ministry for Climate Change.

While Australia produces about 1.5 percent of the world's carbon emissions
its dependence on coal for producing electricity makes it the world's biggest
per-person polluter.

One of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's first actions after winning office was to
sign the Kyoto Protocol, which sets binding limits on emissions from
developed countries, and to cut emissions by 60 percent of 2000 levels by
2050.


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