Australia's Position
Australia is taking a leadership role in the international climate change negotiations in Copenhagen, including by making important proposals in the key debates about how the world will tackle climate change. The following summarises Australia's position on a number of key issues.
Targets
Ambitious domestic action by Australia and other developed countries will support strong outcomes from the international negotiations.
Shared vision
The shared vision will signal to the world what all countries will strive to achieve together.
Mitigation
Australia and other developed countries must continue to lead mitigation action through ambitious emissions reductions.
Adaptation
Regardless of future efforts to reduce emissions, the level of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere means that some climate change impacts cannot be avoided.
Finance
Another central element of bringing developed and developing countries together in an international agreement will be financing.
Technology
All countries agree on the urgent need to decouple emissions growth from economic growth – in other words, to create a low-carbon economy.
Post-2012 legal architecture
UNFCC negotiations must determine the legal form, and architecture of the new global climate change agreement.
Land sector
The land sector—agriculture and forestry—has an important role to play in reducing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Forest carbon
Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries is critically important.Useful links
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