Towards a new response to climate change

Towards a new response to climate change - Perspectives from Australia - speech 15 October 2008
PORTFOLIO: Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts

SNIPPET: You are here: » Major speeches. Others assert that recent global financial and economic events demand delay in action on climate change that we cannot afford to reduce emissions right now or - in Australia's case - proceed to introduce a market-based emissions trading scheme. And as I've just highlighted, we have taken a robust, market-based approach to reducing our domestic emissions because we want Australia to be in a position to capitalise on new opportunities in a carbon constrained world.