Reserve Bank board member Broadbent urges Australia to catch up on renewable energy
Australia must act on climate change – Broadbent, THE AUSTRALIAN, AAP April 18, 2012 AUSTRALIA’S economy will be “very vulnerable” if it does not act on climate change, says Reserve Bank of Australia board member Jillian Broadbent.
The comment follows the Federal Government’s release yesterday of her independent review of its Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), which will offer up to $10 billion to companies in the renewable energy sector struggling to secure capital.
Ms Broadbent says Australia risks being left behind in the global shift toward renewable energy and carbon reductions.
“If we’re not ready for it, it’s going to be a significant cost to us in the long-term,” she told ABC Radio today. “Early action towards the transformation to cleaner energy minimises the ultimate cost and the destruction to the economy.
“No action leaves us very vulnerable.”……. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/breaking-news/australia-behind-on-climate-change-broadbent/story-e6frg90f-1226331126913
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The Road to War brings a sharp focus to why it is not in Australia’s best interest to be dragged into a war with China which will almost inevitably go nuclear very quickly. The filmmaker has interviewed some of Australia’s senior foreign policy analysts who have vast experience behind them in analysing what really is going on here as the United States rattles its sabres with China. And sets us up to be its proxy, like the poor Ukranians have been fed into the Meatgrinder. So America can remain the Top Dog. The Road to War reveals how the United States through its spy base at Pine Gap and by stationing six nuclear capable B52 bombers in the Top End (without permission from the traditional owners) is making Australia a prime nuclear target if the current war of words suddenly melts down into full scale war.
The Road to War shows the implicit connection between Carbon emissions (the US military uses a whopping 70% of America’s annual petroleum to move its armies and vast War Machine around the globe to its 800+ military bases..but under a loophole wangled at Kyoto, the US military does not have to report its C02 annual emissions). The Road to War starts screening at selected cities and regional centres in March. See the trailer end for details.
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