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\"parisWhat do you think about the hoopla surrounding the signing of the Paris Climate Talks<\/a> agreement readers? Happy? Deflated? A sense of the same old, same old? Or a new beginning for the planet?<\/p>\n

I should be happy. Finally our pollies, like kids dragged screaming from a lolly shop, appear to be actually do something positive on behalf of those that put them in power. Even our own foreign minister \u2014 friend of the mineral lobby \u2014 hailed the agreement as \u201chistoric\u201d.<\/p>\n

Yet I still find it worrying. Not just this round, but any environmental summit where politicians are asked to commit to targets that mitigate climate change that might just save the world.<\/p>\n

You just know that after claims of alleged all-night discussions, heroic stands to full stop placements and dedication to saving the planet on behalf of [fill in country name here] \u2026 it\u2019s all just show. First on the agenda on next year\u2019s summit will be to examine why the last year\u2019s proposals\/legally binding agreements hadn\u2019t been implemented properly and the whole process begins anew.<\/p>\n

Or does this represent a \u201clight at the end of the environmental tunnel\u201d? It\u2019s an intriguing time.<\/p>\n

The gabfest is a gold mine of weasel words: \u201cframework\u201d, \u201cnon-binding targets\u201d, \u201croad maps\u201d, \u201cclean coal\u201d, \u201cacceptable limits\u201d and my favourite \u201ca step in the right direction\u201d.<\/p>\n

Rather than \u201ca step in the right direction\u201d, we need a raft of policies that will support renewable energy and reduce our collective carbon footprint as a matter of urgency. That is now a given in all areas except shock-jock land and certain fossil fuel boardrooms.<\/p>\n

Many of the climate negotiators and environmental groups attending the talks are undoubtedly genuine. However am I being too pessimistic to suggest the targets will inevitably be circumvented, stalled, or in the case of Australia, rejected or watered down so much as to be almost unrecognisable?<\/p>\n

Broken political promises regarding the environment have become the norm in our country. Who now remembers former PM Rudd\u2019s claim that climate change was \u201cthe greatest challenge of our time\u201d, only to abandon the fight as soon as polling went south after a sophisticated pro-fossil fuel advertising campaign?<\/p>\n

Or PM Howard\u2019s support for a price on carbon to be so ruthlessly destroyed by the harsh, anti-renewables policies of his acolyte Abbott?<\/p>\n

Are we as a society hard-wired to destroy our planet? No. There is light at the end of the tunnel, it just depends where you look. For times are changing, and fast.<\/p>\n

Work is being done to mitigate climate change and recalcitrant democratic governments are being dragged along whether they like it or not. The driver though is not necessarily government departments (at least less so in our part of the world). It is progressive think tanks, university studies, renewables and environment-focussed NGOs, independent agencies and most importantly businesses and households that are providing the force and inspiration needed.<\/p>\n

It is clear that any achievements on renewable energy, energy efficiency, solar power or battery storage systems (the new gamechanger), will be driven from the ground up. From the demand end of the equation.<\/p>\n

The experience in our country \u2014 certainly with the more conservative of governments \u2014 is that they will act to support renewables only when it is clear that opinion polls, business leaders and the community at large supports change. And we\u2019ve reached that tipping point in our country now.<\/p>\n

If anything the breakthrough at the Paris Climate Talks represent a final alignment of political need and \u201cwhat the people want\u201d to quote an old, hackneyed phrase.<\/p>\n

Where to now in Australia? Will fossil fuel lobbyists design sophisticated and massively expensive campaigns to undermine the Paris Agreement? Or will allegedly far-sighted politicians like Turnbull grasp that it\u2019s time to change and lead the country away from a fossil fuel-dominated existence?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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