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Kevin Rudd's return could herald a second Australian climate election
2013-06-28 01:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Rudd was elected in 2007 saying that climate change was the "the greatest moral, economic and environmental challenge of our generation". In many ways, 2007 was the climate change election. The first act Rudd took as prime minister was to ratify Kyoto, a symbolic break from the lead-footed conservative government under John Howard. A price on carbon was the major policy that the new Labor government saw to reduce carbon emissions, called the carbon pollution reduction scheme. The scheme was defeated...
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