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Old Feb 1st 2006, 6:06 am
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REDUCTIONS in greenhouse gas emissions three times greater than those in the Kyoto Protocol could result from next week's climate change talks, a federal minister has predicted.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...387627984.html


AUSTRALIA and the US will recruit other countries to their alternative climate change group.
This week ministers from six countries will attend the first meeting of the Asia-Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate which is looking to technology for solutions to global warming. But officials from the US and Australian governments have confirmed the membership of the group will be extended to other interested countries later this year.

New Zealand, Britain and some European countries are understood to be interested in the alternative partnership although they are all strong supporters of the Kyoto Protocol.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...771500711.html


Australia signed the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. The Government has decided not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol because, while it has some positive elements, it does not provide a comprehensive or environmentally effective long-term response to climate change. There is no clear pathway for action by developing countries, and the United States has indicated that it will not ratify. Without commitments by all major emitters, the Protocol will deliver only about a 1% reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions.

The Government is committed to Australia’s internationally agreed target of limiting emissions to 108% of 1990 levels between 2008 and 2012. Due to strong action by the Australian Government, including around $1.8 billion domestic climate change programme, Australia is on track to meet this target.

http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/international/kyoto/
 
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REDUCTIONS in greenhouse gas emissions three times greater than those in the Kyoto Protocol could result from next week's climate change talks, a federal minister has predicted.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...387627984.html


AUSTRALIA and the US will recruit other countries to their alternative climate change group.
This week ministers from six countries will attend the first meeting of the Asia-Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate which is looking to technology for solutions to global warming. But officials from the US and Australian governments have confirmed the membership of the group will be extended to other interested countries later this year.

New Zealand, Britain and some European countries are understood to be interested in the alternative partnership although they are all strong supporters of the Kyoto Protocol.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...771500711.html


Australia signed the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. The Government has decided not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol because, while it has some positive elements, it does not provide a comprehensive or environmentally effective long-term response to climate change. There is no clear pathway for action by developing countries, and the United States has indicated that it will not ratify. Without commitments by all major emitters, the Protocol will deliver only about a 1% reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions.

The Government is committed to Australia’s internationally agreed target of limiting emissions to 108% of 1990 levels between 2008 and 2012. Due to strong action by the Australian Government, including around $1.8 billion domestic climate change programme, Australia is on track to meet this target.

http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/international/kyoto/
108% of 1990 levels is our target?!

Heaven help the planet.
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108% of 1990 levels is our target?!

Heaven help the planet.

she'll be right mate
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she'll be right mate
LOL, I only wish that were true.
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And to put a new spanner in the climate works, did you see the New Scientist piece a couple of weeks ago? Apparently they have now discovered that plants give off methane - a much more powerful greenhouse gas than the CO2 they absorb - and no-one has had a clue about this for years since it was thought "impossible"

So planting trees might be bad for the planet.....
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