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Climate Clark Kent: Greg Combet

Published 15th November 2010 - 0 comments - 1068 views -

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Greg Combet, Australia's new Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, might look like Clark Kent but politically he is a Superman. As Secretary of the ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions) before entering Federal parliament, he won some seemingly unwinnable battles.

Combet and the Gillard government have received welcome support from the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) for placing a price on carbon:

THE government's push for a price on carbon has received a boost from the OECD. Its economic survey of Australia says the setting of a price "sooner rather than later" is the "best option for cutting CO2 emissions".
Price on carbon 'is best option'

Combet was interviewed by Fran Kelly on the ABC Radio National's Breakfast program:

 

 

The world needs some super-heroes at Cancún's COP16 (Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change).

Perhaps Greg will be one of them.

 

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