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Published online 26 November 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2007.285
Updated online: 3 December 2007

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Australia set to ratify Kyoto Protocol

Newly elected prime minister intent on changing Australia's climate stance.

Stephen Pincock

Australia’s new prime minister Kevin Rudd has wasted little time getting to work on an election pledge to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse-gas emissions.

Rudd, a 50-year-old former diplomat, led the Labor party to an emphatic victory in Saturday’s election, claiming 83 of the 150 seats in the lower house of the national parliament — up from 60 at the last election in 2004.

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  • As a citizen of the United States it has been increasingly embarrassing to live with the Bush Administration's anti-environmental/climatological stance. In Arizona we have seen record temperatures late into November only just breaking a few days ago. Hopefully the U.S. being the only industrialized nation to shun the Kyoto Accords will show the Bush Administration for what it is: a government of a stolen election with a mandate for self service and self enrichment, corrupt policies and more corrupt administration officials

    • 26 Nov, 2007
    • Posted by: Dennis Freeman