ETS
Rudd on Rudd: I’m a coward on climate change
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
The problem with performing a political backflip of such spectacularly high degrees of difficulty as Kevin Rudd shakily negotiated today is the haunting rhetoric which can come back to bite you in the ass.
In dumping Labor’s commitment to introduce an emissions trading scheme (ETS) this term, various media reports have pinned Rudd to comments he made in a speech to the Lowy Institute for International Policy last November. It’s worth republishing his remarks at length . . .
The Story of Cap and Trade
This video questions in simple (and entertaining) ways, the effectiveness and justice (or lack-thereof) of Emissions Trading Schemes such as that being proposed by the federal government with its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
Trouble watching? View the film on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA6FSy6EKrM&feature=channel
