Big parties won't dance to climate tune

Saturday, February 27, 2010 - 11:00

Campaigning group Climate Action Hobart (CAH) held a 'Dancing with the "climate" stars' competition on February 26 to drawn attention to the climate policies of Tasmania's big political parties.

In January, CAH released a document called '10 steps for a safe climate', which set a number of policy benchmarks for Tasmania called.

We have asked all Tasmania's political parties to adopt and implement our "10 steps for a safe climate" policy benchmarks because all parties' climate policies need to be improved', said CAH's Gemma Tillack.

From GLW issue 828

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