Australia Announces Plans to Reduce Greenhouse Gases

(15 December 08-RV) Australia today announced a plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's government remains committed to its election promise of slashing Australia's carbon emissions that are blamed for global warming by 60 percent
from 2000 levels by 2050. But climate change policy documents released today set an interim reduction range of only 5 percent to 15 percent by 2020, rising to 15 percent if world governments reached an agreement next year in talks for a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. We spoke to Environmentalist, Bishop Chris Toohey of Wilcannia Forbes, in Australia about the difficulties of reaching a collective agreement on targets.