No more excuses on targets
Australian Greens Deputy Leader, Senator Christine Milne, speaking from Copenhagen, said:
"Tony Abbott's misunderstanding of basic climate policy is astonishing, but the Government's response has showed up once again the nonsense of their refusal to lift their sights to science-based emissions reduction targets.
"Tuvalu has belled the cat in Copenhagen on the refusal of rich countries like Australia to follow the science and accept strong binding targets. It's a matter of survival, for them in the short term and for us, too, in the slightly longer term.