Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced new measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

These include cutting emissions by at least 5% by 2020 and a carbon trading scheme to be implemented by 2010.
But the proposals were immediately denounced by critics as inadequate, with the Green Party calling them a “global embarrassment”.
Coal-reliant Australia has the highest per capita levels of greenhouse gas emissions in the developed world.
Mr Rudd promised a new era of Australian leadership on climate change when he came to office last year.
He signalled a break from the past by ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, something his predecessor John Howard had refused to do.
But he now stands accused of curtailing his environmental policy in order to limit the impact on Australia’s coal industry and the wider economy.

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