Professor Ross Garnaut has said that it is only a global solution that will have any impact global warming.
Now finally someone is talking some sense.
Opposition Emissions Trading Scheme spokesman Andrew Robb [ pictured below] is calling for the emissions trading scheme to be delayed for two years.
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The meltdown had to be taken into account. ”It’s going to discourage other countries around the world, they’re going to look at other priorities, and it’s going to put pressure on the speed with which they tackle climate change,” he said.
The Government should also wait for the result of world climate talks in Copenhagen in late 2009.
Mr Robb reiterated the Opposition’s policy that emissions trading should start in ”2012 at the latest”.
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Kevin Rudd should take his Emissions Trading Scheme to next federal election due in 2010. Like former Prime Minister John Howard did with the GST he should give the Australian public the opportunity to decide if we want it or not.
Doing that would allow the Australian public to have a good look at the full costs and implications of the scheme. I doubt the Rudd government would have the courage to do that.
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