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For Immediate Release 16 December 2009
Australian Conservation Councils to meet Kevin Rudd Today
The message from Australians sent to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in Copenhagen today is clear: ‘Bring back a
fair, ambitious and legally binding climate change treaty from Copenhagen’.
Last weekend 90,000 Australians took part in the Walkagainstwarming – the biggest day of climate action
Australia has ever seen.
‘Over 90,000 participants in Walkagainstwarming
were very clear about their message to Kevin Rudd on
Saturday. We want him to come home with a binding agreement for a safe climate targeting 350 and an
established international Adaptation Fund to assist affected developing nations,’ said Toby Hutcheon,
Executive Director of Queensland Conservation
Today, messages from participants in the event will be handed directly to Kevin Rudd before his keynote
address at the UN Climate Negotiations.
Piers Verstegen, Director of the Conservation Council Western Australia is representing the Conservation
Councils of Australia and their members at the Copenhagen climate negotiations. Mr Verstegen will hand the
Prime Minister photographs of the Walkagainstwarming events in Australia and messages from participants
at a breakfast meeting.
“Australia is the largest coal exporter in the world, and has close to the highest greenhouse emissions per
capita in the world. This means Australia has a particular responsibility to take a leadership position at
Copenhagen.”
“Despite what the federal opposition is saying, Australians are expecting Kevin Rudd to bring back a fair,
ambitious and legally binding treaty that will stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at
350 parts per million (ppm) or less.”
“At present, the commitments that have been put on the table by countries including Australia fall well short
of what we know is required.”
MEDIA CONTACT: Piers Verstegen (in Copenhagen) +61 411 557 892
Toby Hutcheon Queensland Conservation (in Australia) 07- 3221 0188/0419 664 503
Photographs of the Walkagainstwarming in each state, and the handover with the Prime Minister are
available.
The Conservation Councils of Australia are: Conservation Council Western Australia, Queensland
Conservation Council, Nature Conservation Council of NSW, Environment Tasmania, Environment
Centre Northern Territory, Conservation Council of South Australia and Environment Victoria.
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