Wong: Every cent for families, business
4/7/08
The Australian Government would commit every cent raised from an emissions trading scheme to help families and businesses adjust to paying a price for carbon, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong says. Responding to the draft report on climate change delivered by Ross Garnaut today, Senator Wong said it was in Australia’s national interest to take action sooner rather than later. She said the Government would issue a green paper later this month which would detail the Government’s response to the Garnaut report and provide an outline on the operation of an emissions trading scheme. “But the Government has made a very clear commitment that every cent of revenue that we gain through the introduction of an emissions trading scheme will be invested to ensure we assist families, households and Australian businesses to adjust to the impact of a carbon price,” Senator Wong said. “We will ensure that there are measures in place to assist Australian households with the impact of a carbon price.”
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We must act now on climate change: Ross Garnaut
Lenore Taylor, 5/6/08
Kevin Rudd’s Rudd’s hand-picked climate change adviser Ross Garnaut yesterday backed Labor’s ambitious plan to introduce an emissions trading scheme within two years, saying it would be “terribly hard, but possible”. Releasing his landmark report on Australia’s climate-change challenge, Professor Garnaut yesterday warned that the nation faced dire economic and environmental consequences if the world did not act quickly to slow global warming. He said that despite some uncertainty about the science of climate change, and despite the fact that there was not yet a comprehensive international agreement for sharing the burden of greenhouse reductions, the economic and scientific evidence supported rapid domestic action.
See: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23971496-5013404,00.html
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