Emissions Trading – making or breaking Australian green history?

Friday, 05 September 2008 20:53

This week, Jeff is launching his first book:  ‘Green is Good, an insider’s story of the battle for a green Australia’ (ABC Books) which chronicles the journey to making the environment a mainstream political issue.   In it he describes several failed attempts over the last two decades to bring-in schemes to reduce carbon pollution; reduce our environmental footprint; and prepare Australia for the ‘climate emergency’. 
 
“The last two years have been a crucial turning point with the urgency of global warming and breadth of community support for action.  While both political parties endorsed an emissions trading scheme at the 2007 federal election, we are now seeing the real battle with business ramping up the economic hyperbole and the Rudd government aware it made an election promise that it will take firm action against greenhouse polluters.”
 
“It’s taken forty years but at last we having the real debate – how to change business into green companies and set us on the path of green capitalism.  Garnaut’s modeling will tell us what we risk with our future environment and well being and the big green economic opportunities we can create.  The Rudd government can’t afford to lose it nerve on this one,” Jeff Angel said.

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