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The government-commissioned report called for stronger international commitment to addressing climate change, saying current efforts "still fall far short of getting deep cuts in global emissions underway."
The government brushed aside the report's call for more ambitious climate change targets, though Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Australia no longer had the policy of "denial" adopted by his predecessor John Howard.
Rudd commissioned the report, written by economics professor Ross Garnaut, before his centre-left government was elected last November.
In his interim findings, Garnaut said rapid industrialisation in China and India meant climate change was happening faster than expected and the solution lay in finding clean methods of achieving global economic expansion.
"Due to a sustained period of high economic growth led by China and India, the world is moving towards high risks of dangerous climate change more rapidly than has been generally understood," he said.
"Faster emissions growth makes mitigation more urgent and more costly," he said. "The challenge is to end the linkage between economic growth and emissions of greenhouse gases."
It is important to reduce emmission of Carbon Dioxide to slow down this climate change,hence Nuclear Energy has an important role to play.But our misguided Communist friends are creating hue and cry over India's nuclear deal with USA.I hope these people realise the foolishness of their stand soon enough and donot become a roadblock in India's progress.
I guess he knows how many cars indians own in every house compared to his own ?and who produces green house gas ? ahahaha have you heared about cows farting ?? stop U R crap ! look at U R own house before accusing others !
I worry about these childish reactions! How is it any different from the blame game that developed nations play? We have to wake up to the reality of the scale of impact due to changes in the two most populous countries of the world. Their effect can be staggering and climate change is not always only about cars per household. Its our industries, increasing land brought under agriculture, it is urbanisation and the fallout due to it. We do have to plan and we do not have the time. The time is already for action!!
USA is still the biggest polluter in the world.
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