From The Campaign Trail

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I said at the start of the G20 Conference held in Melbourne that Treasure Costello showed considerable failure in leadership by not putting climate change on the agenda. For Costello, as for climate change sceptic Howard, it is business as usual with just a little bit of tinkering on the side - because that is good politics. Well I am happy to say that climate change did make it to the agenda. The push to include it came not from Australia but from others lead by British government economist Nicholas Stern. Stern successfully persuaded others that climate change is not just an environmental issue - the original Costello position - but should be central to the concerns of all especially those concerned with long term economics. I would be very interested to hear from anyone who has a view on how the political parties are going, in truly addressing the profound present and future challenge created by global warming. By the way you can access the full Stern report at: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/stern_review_economics_climate_change/sternreview_index.cfm