Australian Greens

Greens call for $20 billion carbon tax to break emissions trading impasse

THE Greens have called on the government to back a $20 billion interim carbon tax proposal to start cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

Greens leader Bob Brown and climate change spokeswoman Christine Milne unveiled the plan today, which would impose a carbon price on polluters of $20 a tonne from the first of July this year.

Greens Senator Christine Milne on the Hypocrites and Deniers in the Australian Parliament

Christine Milne, Australian Greens Senator, compares the Labor Party Climate Change Hypocrites (do almost nothing) with the Liberal Party Deniers (do worse than nothing), and compares them with Britain, where the Conservative Party has 'leapfrogged' the Labor Party in ambitious Climate Change policy, and in the polls.

Beyond Zero talks to Senator Christine Milne Greens Deputy Leader

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