|
Web Clip
Engadget RSS Feed – Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot weighs 330 pounds, but it can now balance on one leg – 2 hours ago
|
Hope is a renewable resource
Hi Neville,
You’d be forgiven for getting whiplash if you were following the news on climate change today. I was just about to update you on Labor’s announcement on the Renewable Energy Target when I got the news of an agreement between China and the US to take dramatic action to reduce carbon emissions. It’s a huge announcement and one which gives me real hope that the world will act to prevent irreversible climate change. With China and the United States representing around one-third of the global economy and over 40 per cent of global emissions, there will now be significant global momentum to deal with climate change. You can read the White House Statement here. This news makes Tony Abbott’s refusal to deal with the issue at the G20 in Brisbane later this week all the more embarrassing and irresponsible. More than that, it reveals Tony Abbott’s determination to take Australia backwards, to reverse our action on climate change, as a complete failure of leadership. Labor has been desperately trying to drag the Abbott Government back to a position of bi-partisan support for the Renewable Energy Target. The Renewable Energy Target has been driving investment in renewable energy. Under Labor, renewable energy jobs tripled, homes with rooftop solar went from 7,400 to 1.3 million and pollution levels declined. But Tony Abbott wants to cut the Renewable Energy Target by 40 per cent and Labor won’t stand for that. A reduction of the Renewable Energy Target by 40 per cent would cost jobs, stall investment and see Australia’s electricity prices and carbon pollution rise. By 2013, Australia was rated one of the four most attractive places to invest in renewable energy, alongside China, the US and Germany. The uncertainty caused by Tony Abbott reneging on his commitment to the Renewable Energy Target has already seen Australia to go backwards, to tenth in the world. On top of that, Tony Abbott wants to abolish the Australian Renewable Energy Agency and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation. Labor will fight for real action on climate change and a strong future for renewables in Australia. And I know you’ll fight with me. Thanks for standing with me, Bill. |
|||||||||||
