| Australian Enviros Not Fans Of GHG Targets |
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| Written by Dave Loos | |
| Tuesday, 16 December 2008 | |
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Australian officials said yesterday they would aim to cut GHG emissions 15 percent by 2020 ... but only if other nations make similar cuts. Now that's leadership. Government leaders said they would only pursue the 15 percent target if other major emitters like China and India sign on to a post-Kyoto climate agreement. If not, Australia says it will lower its target to 5 percent by 2020. This hasn't gone over too well with environmentalists down under, who had urged leaders to adopt a target reduction of 25 percent for Australia, which happens to be the world's biggest coal exporter. Green groups throughout the country staged protests today that included placing sandbags around minister's offices in Sydney to highlight rising sea levels and carrying white flags of surrender in Melbourne. Other activists threw shoes (that caught on fast!) at a puppet of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Rudd called the country's new strategy of aiming low "a responsible course of action ... The Australian government, given the global financial crisis, makes no apologies whatsoever for introducing responsible medium term targets to bring down our greenhouse gas emissions, capable of being built on in the future more ambitiously. Enviros too issue with Rudd's definition of responsible targets: "Today's protest is to tell Kevin Rudd that the Australian people didn't vote for five percent," New South Wales Greens lawmaker John Kaye said. "What they wanted was targets that put Australia as world leaders on climate change and not as losers."
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