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April 01, 2007 12:15pm
Article from: Sunday Mail (SA)
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OPPOSITION Leader Kevin Rudd has unveiled his blueprint for climate change policy, declaring there is a moral responsibility to act now.
His seven-point framework includes possible establishment of an office of climate change within the prime minister's department should Labor win government at the election later this year.
He emphasised clean-coal technology at the core of the plan, but made no mention of considering nuclear power as the Howard Government has proposed.
Opening Labor's climate change summit in Canberra yesterday, Mr Rudd said his aim was to harness the nation's best and brightest talent.
Seven key areas for consideration included a national emissions trading scheme, clean coal technology, mandatory renewable and energy efficiency targets, a framework for corporate and community responsibility, diplomacy and the adequacy of Australian national institutional arrangements.
Mr Rudd said he wanted to see Australia take the lead in helping China address its growing emissions with an Australia-China climate change initiative.
"But when it comes to the great change and challenge of the next period ahead of us, it is an area where we must act, and act soon," he said.
"I am optimistic we can do that and that may well be our significant contribution to the planet, particularly if we get clean coal technology right."
Mr Rudd said he was not proposing to release a grand Labor climate change policy initiative from this summit. "My intention is to harness the best brains and talent available in the country to get our response and the nation's response to climate change as right as possible," he said.
"To do that we have to begin by fashioning, shaping and encouraging a national political and policy consensus.
"Our job is to listen, but subsequent to that, our job is then to act."
Keynote speaker Professor Tony Haymet, former head of CSIRO atmospheric research and now head of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, said the evidence of global warming caused by human greenhouse gas emission was irrefutable.
"We must reduce our emissions; it is not an option, it is a boundary condition," he said.
"We need to understand where we are going so that our businesses, scientists and engineers can get to work on the technology we need."
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wenn unser Baby Laufen lernt wird es Niemand mehr stoppen können.
Ich hoffe nur Garry spendet dann auch so großzügig wie Billyboy Gates.