australia leading the world once again.

Whilst cutting our emissions in isolation will make very little differnce in itself that fact that a high polluting modern economy like Australia will being doing the right thing sends a strong message to the rest of the world and I belive will lead others to do the same and will result in reduced emissions world wide. Little things become big things. (We are putting our money where our mouth is)

This from the guardian in UK


"Australia has unveiled its most sweeping economic reform in decades, including a plan to tax carbon emissions from the country's worst polluters. As the largest emissions trading scheme outside Europe, it revives hopes of stronger global climate action"

"It could also aid global efforts to fight carbon pollution, which have largely stalled since the US president, Barack Obama, last year ruled out a federal climate bill in his present term. Outside the EU, only New Zealand has a national carbon scheme.

"Other countries will look at one of the most carbon polluting economies on the planet that has made one huge stride forward towards putting a price on carbon," said John Connor, chief executive of The Climate Institute."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jul/10/australia-unveils-carbon-tax-emissions-trading