Saturday, September 4, 2010

Australian News #10: Business calls for carbon tax

http://www.australiannews.com.au/national/article.aspx?id=508816&articleID=

The new chairman of National Business Leaders' Forum on Sustainable Development (NBLF), Rod Leaver would like to include climate change mitigation into the nation's political and business agenda. He suggested a carbon tax to make sure that the country is well-prepared to face the future and also achieve two of the twenty-three key reforms of the forum, which is by cuttin 25% in greenhouse gas by 2020 and 90% by 2050. The opportunity appeared as both major political parties were seeking for votes from the independence. Carbon tax was seen as a way to give Australian businsesses the confidence required to invest and develop the economy.

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