Opinion: the need to act to limit climatechange is catching up with a government that – since Tony Abbott used denialism to seize the party’s leadership from Malcolm Turnbull in 2009 – has turned global warming a political football | 1RossGittins auspol
EU plan to impose a carbon tax on our exports to Europe
It’s a condemnation of Australian voters that they were willing to allow their preferred party to tell them whether they cared or didn’t care about their children’s future. It should have been the other way round. “It’s all too hard; you do my thinking for me.” As part of their plan to reduce their emissions by 55 per cent by 2030, the Europeans are toughening up the emissions trading scheme they introduced in 2005, which imposes a price on the carbon emissions of European industries.
So what the Europeans want to do can’t honestly be called protectionism. It bears no similarity with the new import duties China’s imposing on some of our exports.
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