AUSSIES STEP UP ON CLIMATE

Australia's carbon tax plan 'a big turning point'…plans for a carbon tax of $24.65 a ton, aimed at discouraging the use of fossil fuels and increasing investment in renewable energy, could blaze a trail for other nations in lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
Jennifer Bennett, July 15, 2011 (LA Times)

"After 10 months of negotiations and sometimes nasty public debate, Australia's government has finally announced the details of a carbon tax of $24.65 a ton, aimed at lowering greenhouse gas emissions by discouraging the use of fossil fuels and increasing investment in renewable energy…"

Thanks to courageous political leadership from the bottom up, this is about to start changing. (click to enlarge)

"In 2015 it will be replaced by an emissions trading program. The plan, announced… by Prime Minister Julia Gillard, will now go before Parliament, but its passage is assured as it is the result of a deal reached with the Australian Greens and two independents with whom the Labor Party formed a government last year. The Greens party also holds the balance of power in the Senate…"