Here is a story from The Australian suggesting that the Rudd government is down-playing the importance of the Garnaut report. Also Graeme Pearman (former head of CSIRO atmospheric research) suggests that we need to set a 2020 target in the 20-30% region.
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September 30, 2008
The Australian
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THE Federal Opposition has accused the Government of ignoring Ross Garnaut's climate change recommendations.
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The Government's chief climate change adviser will hand down his final report on emissions trading today.
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Professor Garnaut has already released three draft reports and a discussion paper on a proposed scheme this year.
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Opposition spokesman for emissions trading Andrew Robb said the Government has failed to act on any of the previous papers.
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"The Government has delegated the Garnaut report to irrelevancy," Mr Robb told ABC Radio.
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"They've said it's no different than 733 other contributors to the (emissions trading) green paper."
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Former head of CSIRO atmospheric research Dr Graeme Pearman said the targets should be doubled.
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"We do need ambition, we do need reduction targets of the order of 20 or 30 per cent by 2020," Dr Pearman told ABC Radio.
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"Both the physical systems and biological systems, are more responsive to these (climate) changes and therefore the impacts are going to be greater than we thought."
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"There's a high probability that these will be dangerous and we will really rue the day that this happens if we allow it to happen now."
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The Australian Greens are also calling for stronger cuts.
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"You can bail out Wall Street but you can't bail out the planet," Greens leader Bob Brown told ABC Radio.
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