Thursday, 8 November 2007
Herald Sun
In Brief Column
By: Liam Walsh, Cameron England APP
Call to major parties
Business think tank Environment Business Australia has written an open letter to the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal Party, calling for bipartisan support on climate change action.
EBA's open letter outlines seven key climate change and clean energy actions, and asks each party to indicate by November 16, which of them they would commit to if elected later this month.
Some of the key requests in the letter are for both parties to commit to fast-tracking the national greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme beginning as early as 2009, adopt mandatory national targets, ratify the Kyoto Protocol and provide federal funding for initiatives.