JULIA Gillard has committed Australia to emissions cuts of 80 per cent within 40 years, moving to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy in the most dramatic economic transformation since the lowering of the nation's tariff barriers in the 1990s.
Declaring an "avalanche of science" dictated that the nation act to combat climate change, the Prime Minister said her carbon tax package announced yesterday would cut 159 million tonnes from Australia's emissions by 2020 and allow the nation to "seize its clean energy future".
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