Ideology again stands in the way of genuine mitigation efforts

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deology is being employed to protect Australia’s status quo.

Under the guise of earnest effort the Abbott-coalition has done some climate change mitigation window dressing, but just today Lisa Cox and Tom Arup have written in the Melbourne about a Grattan report that declares the efforts were “designed to fail”.

The story - “Direct action's emissions safeguards 'designed to fail': Grattan Institute” – says, “Proposed safeguards to limit greenhouse gas emissions from big polluters have been designed by the Abbott government to fail, according to the Grattan Institute.”