40%Aug 24, 2010
Target annoucement on the way…
An update from the Assembly…
The Environment and Climate Change committee at the Assembly has just tabled the final Climate Change targets report.
In doing so, Zed Seselja, Leader of the Liberals spoke to the report. He indicated that he doesn’t support a 40% target, but that the Liberals do have a Bill on the table for a 30% target. He effectively confirmed Liberal Party support for that position by saying that while 30% would be a very challenging target, it was a “sensible approach”.
The ACT Greens MLAs position remains 40% by 2020 off a 1990 baseline.
The Government will table their in the Assembly bill on Thursday morning, so expect to see their 2020 target annoucement on the front page of Thursday’s Canberra Times.
Hey there, I have read the recent media release, and note the ‘stated Timeline’(2020); what would be better IS that there were two ‘target Timelines’ chosen, so that there is more astute and exact monitoring of ‘real progress’ to get-there, to the stated ‘target’(which is @ 2020); the NEED for more and better Timelines, including incorporation of the scient.published ‘Sustainable Timepsan’ theory into GREENS’Party Planning
policy/ies was no better ascertained in late 2009 when Adviser/s to all the ACT Assembly Greens MLAs were interviewed and asked what they(individually/professionally) believed to be (in Years) a ‘short-Term Timepsan’, and ‘the LongTerm’; the results of those interviews were not made public, but should have been(at least) taken note of in one or any of the recent Greens’ newsletters; NB: ‘The Sustainable |Timespan’ is a period of years(12-15) over which exact and annual monitoring of ‘progress towards no-growth or a sustainable economy’ can be used econometrically to actualyl get-there; key ecologic and economic parameteres are the edfined basis for doing so, including Soil Formation Rate/s – as originally published!
(U.S.Journal of Soil & Water Conservation,1992)
Cheers Now! Please let me know what you think, andI would like to provide intereswted Greens’ of the ACT a chance to debate/Discuss this theory- since “3 months”(as answered) is too short to consider for any ‘longTerm’!!!
Sincerely & Environmentally,
Joe A Friend Independent Scientist & AU|THOR
BSc(Syd.)Hons1; ex-CSIRO, ex-DECC/NSW;
ex-Qld Dept.Environment; Ecological Adviser.