Here is an edited extract of Foreign Minister Alexander Downer’s speech to the UN on why APEC’s Sydney Declaration should supplant Kyoto in the fight against climate change.
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APEC: Don’t blow it, good planets are hard to find
APEC has a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact in our fight against climate change, but will leaders, particularly Bush and Howard, take it? Ian T. Dunlop writes.
APEC: Sydney, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet…
We’re still a month away from the APEC summit, but disgruntled Sydney residents have so far tolerated the noise of Black Hawks passing over the city, had their Lord Mayor encourage everyone pack emergency ‘go-bags’ complete with radios and energy bars and had their hospital services cut back.
