Perhaps Rob Oakeshott MP and Climate Change Australia members would like to explain the part payment of carbon tax to recipients external to Australia.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s speech, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 14/11/2011 made statements which are dictatorial demands. Extracts shown for brevity, but can be accessed in total on the internet http://tinyurl.com/8y43swk
“In Durban I expect that countries will make the clarifications on the future of the Kyoto Protocol.
“They must have to launch the Green Climate Fund and they have to have a clarification on short term and longer term climate change financing.
“There was a $30 billion promised in Copenhagen. We have identified only $27 billion dollars.
“We must have to make this happen and we have to have clear understanding and agreement on how the developed world will generate $100 billion per year by 2020.
“The Fund needs to be launched in Durban. An empty shell cannot be unanswered. We must fill this shell. Governments must find ways to provide financial and technological support to the developing world.”
The Green Climate Fund is in reality a tax, collected by government and paid to the UN. In Australia’s case, approx 10 per cent of any carbon tax collected per annum.
This fact was put up for debate in the parliament by Julie Bishop MP on at least two occasions, to the Prime Minister and to the Treasurer, but was trivialised by both these members. Rob Oakeshott MP was in attendance on at least one of these sessions, so would be aware of this debate.
There is no guarantee that this Fund will not increase its demands in the future.
Greg Combet MP signed the document of interest at Cancun last year; it will be ratified by our representative in Durban in December.
The Clean Energy Bill 2011 reduction rate is set at 5 per cent, but the Greens want the reduction to 100 per cent by 2050.
Geoff Hutchesson,
Bonny Hills
