The wishy-washy agrement struck in Durban today completely fails the climate, the Australian Greens said today.

Australian Greens Deputy Leader, Senator Christine Milne, just returned from Durban, said, "The world is now on track to exceed 2 degrees of warming under this agreement. No matter how much nuancing of the words is done, the fact is the political reality does not match the scientific reality.

Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown spoke to reporters in Hobart on Saturday about the climate talks in Durban, the clear-felling of the intergovernmental agreement that was meant to protect Tasmania's grand forests, Sea Shepherd, and tourism in Tasmania.

Negotiations in Durban are in serious danger of breaking down completely as countries wrestle to weaken any outcomes and Australia is right in the midst of it, Australian Greens Deputy Leader Christine Milne said today.

Australians should be very troubled that the Gillard Government is trying to rort the system through renegotiating the rules on Land Use Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) under the Kyoto Protocol in at the Durban climate conference. the Australian Greens said today.

New accounting rules being pushed by Australia and other developed countries like Canada, if adopted, could hide globally half a billion tones of greenhouse gas emissions from logging whilst at the same time setting up a scam that could result in logging credits instead of debits.

The global climate talks in Durban are deadlocked over how to proceed when the Kyoto Protocol first commitment period ends in 2012 and Australia must show leadership, Australian Greens Deputy Leader, Senator Christine Milne said in Durban today.

"It would be an enormous blow to climate action globally if the legally binding Kyoto protocol is allowed to lapse post 2012 with no legally binding treaty or even a pathway towards one," Senator Milne said.

Christine Milne speaks to ABC Newsradio from Durban climate negotiations athe beginning of the second week.

A "Climate Action Tracker" report released at the Durban climate conference overnight gives Australia a big tick for creating the framework for strong action with the Clean Energy Future package, but highlights the need to do much more to protect the climate, including lifting our weak 5% unconditional target, the Australian Greens said today.

WA Senators Rachel Siewert and Scott Ludlam say today's historic carbon price vote is the start of serious action on climate change.

"The passage of the Clean Energy Future package through the Senate represents a new beginning for our economy, with new industries and new jobs being created," Senator Rachel Siewert said today.

Senator MILNE (Tasmania-Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens) (11:44): I rise today on what is an historic day in the Australian parliament in the Senate. This is the day when the Senate will begin to consider the clean energy package and will start delivering on real action on climate change in Australia as these bills pass. It is an historic day in Australia and globally because it is the day on which the seven-billionth is expected to join us on the planet. We live on a finite planet and the non-renewable resources of the earth are under huge pressure.

Forestry Tasmania's years of escaping scrutiny and responsibility for its greenhouse gas emissions from logging carbon-rich native forests are coming to end thanks to the Cancun climate agreements, the Australian Greens said today.

"The global community has long recognized that one of the cheapest and fastest ways of reducing emissions is to protect the massive carbon stores in the world's forests," Australian Greens Deputy Leader, Senator Christine Milne, said.