Something has to give if we are serious about reducing emissions.
POLLING before the US presidential election showed that Australians supported Barack Obama over John McCain by a margin of about five to one. The support was even stronger among environmental and green groups.
Obama was the green candidate who strongly supported carbon reduction and an emissions trading scheme (ETS). Perhaps it is timely to see where the Obama Administration is going on this issue.
In a televised address to a bipartisan meeting of US governors organised by Arnold Schwarzenegger last November, Obama pledged "a new chapter in America's leadership on climate change". He pledged to introduce a federal cap and trade scheme (an ETS) with annual targets to "reduce emissions to their 1990 levels by 2020".
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