Labor leader Kevin Rudd has called for an Australian version of the Stern Report to calculate the economic cost of climate change, following the release of the latest UN warning on climate change.
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC) report was released in Brussels last night, giving the most alarming forecast yet about the consequences of climate change for the world.
What we actually need is some significant action from government, industry and the UN, which I believe has been remiss in it's duties given the Kyoto Protocol was some years ago now. Labels: climate change, IPCC, Kyoto, Stern Report |