Government trying to ‘buy way out’ of Kyoto

THE Government was yesterday accused by opposition parties of deliberately ignoring the seriousness of climate change.

On the publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, the Green Party claimed that the Government had repeatedly shown that climate change is not one of its priorities in spite of its claims to the contrary.

Leader of the Green Party, Trevor Sargent, reasoned that if greenhouse gas emissions are not stabilised within the next decade, climate change was likely to become a “catastrophic runaway event”.