Howard Asleep on Climate Change

This ad – John Howard's asleep on Climate Change - will have a national run. It will go to "air" this afternoon. (July 17).


It coincides with Mr Howard's attempt to address his 11 years of inaction on climate change. Today, Mr Howard said he would introduce an emissions trading scheme, but has refused to set a date. He has also refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol on climate
change.

However, Federal Labor has strong and detailed plans on climate change. They include:

• Ratifying the Kyoto Protocol;
• Setting up a national emissions trading scheme;
  
• Cutting Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by 60 per cent on 2000 levels by 2050;
  
• Setting up the $500 million National Clean Coal Fund;
  
• Funding Labor's Solar Home Power Plan to help families to install solar panels;
  
• Setting up a $500 million Green Car Innovation Fund designed to generate $2 billion to secure jobs in the automotive industry and tackle climate change by manufacturing low emission vehicles in Australia;
  
• Substantially increasing the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target;
  
• Commissioning the Garnaut Review - an Australian focussed equivalent of the UK-Stern Report on the impact of climate change on both the Australian economy and jobs; and
  
• Setting a target of making half of all Commonwealth cars in its fleet environmentally friendly by 2020.