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Renewables Can Save the Debate to Save the Climate at COP17

 

The UN’s climate negotiations in Durban are stuck in the same morass as the carbon price was for us in Australia for so many years. Both the Australian and the international climate debates have been focused on abstract carbon price schemes that no one understands.

 

A poll in Australia confirms what I have come to believe after watching the global warming issue for 20 years; renewable energy is the only way to save the debate about saving the planet.

If the UN wants to make progress in the climate negotiations and closer to home, if Julia Gillard wants to win the next election, then the debate should be couched in terms of the tangible benefits of today’s solar and wind technologies.

A poll by Essential Research during Australia’s recent, vexatious carbon price negotiations shows that there’s overwhelming public support for investment in solar and wind, and that this support might just win the politics of a carbon price.

The poll shows that the public loves renewables, but that this sentiment is vulnerable to attacks from the polluters. Solar and wind have been politicised and companies need to step in and vigorously defend their interests.

Renewable energy is the consensus issue

The central question of the poll was "Does that fact that the carbon pricing scheme includes a $10 billion investment in renewable energy make you more supportive or less supportive of the carbon pricing scheme or does it make no difference?"

Results indicated that 43 percent said the $10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) makes them more supportive, 10 percent said more negative and 41 percent said it made no difference.

To read more about how renewables can save the climate debate, read Renewable Energy World's full story.

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