Rudd must lead globe towards strict targets
The weak targets advocated in the supplementary report from the Garnaut review released today are based on outdated science, risk catastrophic climate change and will undermine global negotiations towards an effective climate treaty, Australian Greens Senators Bob Brown and Christine Milne said today.
"Professor Garnaut concluded that it 'is worth paying less than 1% of GNP as a premium for the 450[ppm] strategy'. Surely, then, this should be our starting point, not our ultimate goal," Senator Brown said.
"The weak target of reducing emissions by 10% below 2000 levels by 2020 would lead to an over-allocation of carbon permits in the same way that the over-allocation of water entitlement has lead to the Murray-Darling Basin crisis," Senator Brown said.