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Rudd can’t do a deal at Copenhagen - Fielding

News Clippings December 15 2009

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd can’t sign Australia up to any climate change deal brokered in Copenhagen, Family First senator Steve Fielding says.

Mr Rudd flew to Denmark via Japan on Monday night (AEDT).

Senator Fielding is already in Copenhagen to spruik his views that humans may not be affecting the climate.

He said Mr Rudd was attending the United Nations talks with a “bunch of empty promises” on cutting carbon emissions that he can’t fulfil.

“I don’t know how the prime minister thinks he can sign Australia up to any agreement when his own climate change policy has been rejected twice,” Senator Fielding said in a statement on Tuesday.

The federal government’s emissions trading scheme was earlier this month rejected by the Senate for a second time, when the coalition and crossbench senators voted against it.

Senator Fielding said Mr Rudd must wait until parliament approves his climate change legislation before committing to any carbon emissions reduction targets agreed upon at Copenhagen.