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Climate Change
Coalition
- No commitment to a price on carbon unless world acts first
- Green army to plant 20 million trees by 2020
- $3.2 billion emissions reduction fund to meet 5 per cent reduction target by 2020
- Reductions would come through soil sequestration and increase in renewable energy usage
Labor
- Commitment to market based emission reduction scheme, but not before 2012 to reduce emissions by between 5-15 per cent
- 150 person community panel to build consensus on climate change
- Incentives for businesses to cut emissions
- $1 billion to hook renewable energy up to power grids
- $394 million cash for clunkers scheme to take 200,000 older inefficient cars off the road
- Tighter standards for the construction of new coal fired power plants
Greens
- Commitment to 40 per cent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
- Committed to implementing a market based reduction scheme as soon as possible
- Emissions targets for 2012, 2020, 2050
- Renewable energy target of 30 per cent by 2020
- Transfer Government subsidies and support from fossil fuel to renewable and efficiency sectors
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