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Article: Some like it hot: Making sense of the Howard Government's climate policy.(Climate Change)(Kyoto Protocol on Climate)(National Greenhouse Response Strategy)
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- Arena Magazine
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- February 1, 2005
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On 22 October last year, after many months of fence sitting, Russia ratified the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change and formally brought the Protocol into being. In response, Australia's Environment Minister, Ian Campbell, quickly reiterated the Howard Government's long-standing refusal to ratify this international treaty and confirmed the pattern that has marked the Howard Government's policies on energy and global warming since it was first elected in 1996.
This pattern--which protects Australia's perceived 'competitive advantage' in fossil fuels, denies support to renewable energy technologies and barely recognizes the threat of climate change itself--presents a ...