After nearly two weeks of snail paced negotiations in Copenhagen, ActionAid decided that enough was enough. We decided it was time for our Climate Debt Agents to repossess the property of spoiler governments such as Australia to enable the least developed countries to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change.
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Tags: actionaid, climate adaption, climate change, climate debt, climate debt agents, climate mitigation, intergovernmental commission on climate change, Kevin Rudd, Penny Wong
Everyone is talking about the Carbon Pollution Reduction Schemes (CPRS) in Australia this week – the climate change legislation Australia had to have… a watered down compromise to reduce the risk of the big polluters causing unemployment carnage if there is a small reduction in their fat profits.
Some in the green movement say that “the legislation is a start and we have to start somewhere” whilst others note that “it would be better to have no legislation at all rather than a fundamentally flawed piece of legislation”. So what’s all this mean?
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