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THE Coalition has offered the Government “unconditional bipartisan” support for the carbon emissions target it plans to take to the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change in December.
But at a press conference today, Malcolm Turnbull said the Opposition would move in parliament to defer a final vote on the Government’s proposed emissions trading scheme until after the conference.
It will need two additional votes in the Senate to defer the scheme, with Independent Senator Nick Xenophon telling The Australian Online he does not believe the ETS legislation should be debated in the current session.
The Senate is holding Estimates Committee hearings this week and next and is only scheduled to sit for eight more day before Parliament rises for the winter recess.
“In the light of the fact that the Copenhagen conference is only six months away and the Obama administration and US Congress are well advanced in finalising US legislation for an ETS, the Coalition believes that it would be premature to lock Australia into an emissions trading scheme that is out of step with the rest of the world,” Mr Turnbull said.
The Government is proposing a minimum reduction target of five per cent below 2000 levels by 2020, up to a conditional target of 25 per cent dependent largely on a global agreement.
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Don Pratt
on May 27th, 2009
@ 7:44 am:
Photosynthesis, in nature captures carbon using energy from the sun. Burning carbon releases that energy. To capture carbon requires energy. Where does that energy come from? If you have found it lets use it and stop burning carbon. Simple? Or have I missed something?
Regards UK Don
on May 27th, 2009
@ 7:49 pm:
Emission guidelines should be passed into law as soon as possible.