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Emissions Reduction

The BCA rejects government attempts to pick winners through funding alternative solutions that have little prospect of delivering meaningful emission cuts without continuing subsidies. This includes scrapping mandatory renewable energy targets for power utilities … The Business Council wants to ensure exporters are given permits to quarantine them from losing competitiveness to other nations that refuse to adopt Australia's emission targets.  

From editorial titled ‘Signals Are Getting Warmer on Climate’, The Australian, 9 April 2007, p. 9.