In 2 days the Cabinet will be acting to pass 5-15%!
We must make sure there is no target included in the exposure legislation of the CPRS.
Dear CCBR Supporters,
We are sending to you this e-action so that you can add your voice to protest and provide balance to the heavy polluter lobbying happening now in parliament.
Over the next 2 days the Government is the proposing to "lock in" the 5-15% in it's Carbon Polution Reduction Scheme** - this would mean that we are committed to abating emissions by no more than 15%!!!
Please take the following four steps:
1. Click http://cprs.take-action.org.au:80/ to use an e-lobby site (set up by Rising Tide) to tell all of Federal Cabinet (excluding Rudd and Wong) not to lock us into a 5-15% target. There is text to cut and paste or write your own*.
2. To send to Kevin Rudd go to: http://www.pm.gov.au/contact/index.cfm and
3. To send to Penny Wong go to: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/senators/homepages/contact.asp?id=00AOU . Alternatively, you could write Rudd and Wong a letter calling for them not to lock the 5-15% target into Australian law.
4. Email Senator Nick Xenophon at http://www.xen.net.au/. His vote could be crucial to the passage of the CPRS. Ask him to make representation to the Government to keep the 5-15% targets out of the CPRS legislation. Include other points if you wish.
*Message example:
Subject: It is crucial that we cut emissions by much more than 15% by 2020
Australia must leave itself the opportunity to make stronger cuts as the science changes and the impacts of climate change become more severe.
It is absolutely necessary that we cut emissions by much more than 15% before 2020.
We must not close off the opportunity to reach global consensus for swifter emissions cuts.
I am asking you to make sure that the CPRS does not lock-in a price-cap. This would fatally undermine the emissions cap and interfere in the carbon market that is being established and there must be a limit to the number of permits that can be offset by purchasing international credits of any kind.
yours sincerely
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**The exposure draft legislation for the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) is due out any day now (within the week). Cabinet members will be meeting very soon to finalise the draft legislation.
If the 5-15% target is in the draft legislation it will be well on its way to becoming law. This will significantly decrease our chance of convincing the Government to agree to higher targets later. The pressure placed on the Government during the International Climate Negotiations in Copenhagen (at the end of this year) may be our only chance at getting them to commit to a higher target - but in order to do this we must make sure there is no target included in the exposure legislation of the CPRS.
cheers,
The CCBR team.
www.climatechangebr.org , ccbrmail@aapt.net.au
