Urgent action: do it today!
URGENT ACTION: EMAIL FEDERAL CABINET MEMBERS TO LET THEM KNOW THAT THEY MUST NOT INCLUDE 5-15% IN THE EXPOSURE DRAFT LEGISLATION OF THE CARBON POLLUTION REDUCTION SCHEME (CPRS)
The exposure draft legislation for the CPRS is due out any day now (in the next week). Cabinet members will be meeting very soon to finalise the draft legislation.
If the 5-15% target is in the draft legislation it will be well on its way to becoming law. This will significantly decrease our chance of convincing the Government to agree to higher targets later. The pressure placed on the Government during the International Climate Negotiations in Copenhagen (at the end of this year) may be our only chance at getting them to commit to a higher target - but in order to do this we must make sure there is no target included in the exposure legislation of the CPRS.
We cannot let the Government lock such a weak target into the CPRS. We urgently need you to take part in an e-lobbying blitz on Federal Cabinet. The Cabinet will have final say on the draft legislation in THE NEXT TWO DAYS.
Please take the following four steps:
1.Click here to use an e-lobby site set up by Rising Tide to tell all of Federal Cabinet (excluding Rudd and Wong) not to lock us into a 5-15% target.
2.Click here and here to visit the parliamentary website where you will find contact forms to send your message straight to Kevin Rudd and Penny Wong. Alternatively, you could write Rudd and Wong a letter calling for them not to lock the 5-15% target into Australian law.
3. Email Senator Nick Xenophon. His vote could be crucial to the passage of the CPRS. Ask him to make representation to the Government to keep the 5-15% targets out of the CPRS legislation. Include other points if you wish.
4. Organise an action. We are Sitting-in at our local member's offices in the last week of March – but that doesn't stop us all acting in the mean-time! When the exposure draft is released gather up the kids and some banners and stage a spontaneous protest with 20 of your friends.
The exposure draft legislation for the CPRS is due out any day now (in the next week). Cabinet members will be meeting very soon to finalise the draft legislation.
If the 5-15% target is in the draft legislation it will be well on its way to becoming law. This will significantly decrease our chance of convincing the Government to agree to higher targets later. The pressure placed on the Government during the International Climate Negotiations in Copenhagen (at the end of this year) may be our only chance at getting them to commit to a higher target - but in order to do this we must make sure there is no target included in the exposure legislation of the CPRS.
We cannot let the Government lock such a weak target into the CPRS. We urgently need you to take part in an e-lobbying blitz on Federal Cabinet. The Cabinet will have final say on the draft legislation in THE NEXT TWO DAYS.
Please take the following four steps:
1.Click here to use an e-lobby site set up by Rising Tide to tell all of Federal Cabinet (excluding Rudd and Wong) not to lock us into a 5-15% target.
2.Click here and here to visit the parliamentary website where you will find contact forms to send your message straight to Kevin Rudd and Penny Wong. Alternatively, you could write Rudd and Wong a letter calling for them not to lock the 5-15% target into Australian law.
3. Email Senator Nick Xenophon. His vote could be crucial to the passage of the CPRS. Ask him to make representation to the Government to keep the 5-15% targets out of the CPRS legislation. Include other points if you wish.
4. Organise an action. We are Sitting-in at our local member's offices in the last week of March – but that doesn't stop us all acting in the mean-time! When the exposure draft is released gather up the kids and some banners and stage a spontaneous protest with 20 of your friends.
