Combet’s global warming circus gets worse

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Australia will sign up to a second commitment to the Kyoto protocol, ahead of what the Gillard government expects will be a comprehensive global emissions agreement taking effect in 2020…

Climate Change Minister Greg Combet told a carbon expo in Melbourne on Friday that Australia was “ready to join a second commitment period” of the protocol, which is to be discussed at global climate talks in Doha in December.

But the protocol – which covers less than 15 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions and only from developed nations – was not enough on its own, he said.

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