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Act now on climate change or pay later: expert

Act now on climate change or pay later: expert
ABC News  Jul 27, 2009
The Climate Change Institute in Canberra has warned that Australia must think beyond the emissions trading scheme, if it wants to have an impact on global warming.Climate change experts are meeting at a summit at the Australian National University to discuss Australia’s response to the threat of global warming.

As the Federal Government and Opposition battle it out over the detail of an ETS, Climate Change Institute director Will Steffen is advising Australians to embrace the renewable energy technologies that are available now, rather than wait for advances in the field.

“What we need to do is start getting the emissions trajectory down as soon as we can, the longer we wait to do this, the more we run the risk, the science says, of crossing some of these tipping elements of triggering some abrupt changes,” he said…………………….

“The other issue of course that came out quite strongly particularly from the economics community is that the longer we delay on the issue the costlier it’ll actually become.”

Act now on climate change or pay later: expert – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

July 28, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, climate change - global warming | climate change - global warming, nuclear, reneweable energy