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Ask your local MP to work for an immediate levy on climate polluters

Ask your local MP to work for an immediate levy on climate polluters

13 Apr 2010 | Climate change

There is a real chance of serious action on the climate crisis before the coming election - if you help us by emailing your local member today and asking them to get behind good-faith negotiations with the Greens towards a simple carbon levy.

The Greens' deadlock-breaking proposal for a simple levy on Australia's biggest polluters - supported by key players from Professor Ross Garnaut to Greenpeace, from the Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS) to the Climate Emergency Network - has a real prospect of passing the Senate and getting Australia moving on climate action. The government has started negotiations with the Greens towards the proposal, but they need a strong signal from Australians to speed up those negotiations and get a bill before the parliament next month.

You can help make this a reality by emailing your local MP and asking them to raise the proposal with their leader - the Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition - and tell them that their constituents are swinging behind the Greens' simple carbon levy proposal as a way to get climate action started swiftly in Australia. Ask them to get back to you with a response from their leader.

If you don't know the name of your Federal MP or seat, you can find out by clicking on this link and plugging in your postcode. Then select them from the drop-down menu below and write them a personal email telling them the Greens' carbon levy is the way to go.

Together, we can get Australia moving towards real climate action before this year's election!

Select your local MP here (listed alphabetically by electorate). If you're not sure which electorate you live in, you can check here.

Please add your own subject heading for your email above

Please write your own message to your MP.

Make sure you ask him or her to raise the issue with the Prime Minister (if they are a Labor MP) or the Opposition Leader (if they are a Coalition MP), telling him that constituents are strongly supportive of the Greens' proposal, and get back to you with a response.

You may want to include some detail about the Greens' proposal to break the climate deadlock, which you can read all about here. Here are a few dot points to get your creative juices flowing.

* The Greens proposal to break the political deadlock on climate action, adopting Professor Garnaut's suggestion of a two year interim scheme with a fixed price, no trading and no offsets, is a positive, constructive idea which should be passed through the parliament before the election.
o The government should negotiate with the Greens in good faith to make sure we can take a positive step in climate action in Australia. The Opposition should also swing behind it.
* The Greens' proposal is designed as a building block for future climate action that's got real teeth. Mr Rudd's CPRS is impossible to strengthen after it's passed, locking in failure before we begin.
* The Greens' proposal gives half its revenue back to Australia's householders and is still in the black. Mr Rudd's CPRS pays polluters to keep polluting and ends up deep in debt.

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