Patrice Newell

Climate Change Coalition candidate for New South Wales

NSW Senate Candidate

Why I am standing

The Climate Change Coalition was founded on the principle of bringing political parties together to address and inspire leadership on the issues of climate change. We are not divisive or exclusive.

Climate change is not Liberal or Labor, Greens or Shooters Party, Christian Democrats or Secular Party - climate change is the greatest crisis we have ever been faced with – it is not only an issue of politics, it is a concern that affects everyone.

Electing a Climate Change Candidate into the Senate will mean that every person who is concerned with climate change, no matter what their political allegiance, can be represented.

While climate change sceptics argue that individuals cannot affect change, they forget that individuals fought for civil rights, freedom of speech and the right for women to vote. And these they won.

Certainly, we have a responsibility to look after our planet for our children; but even if we have no children, we still have a legacy to protect – a selfless belief in a future of a world undiminished and intact.

We should remember we all have only the one short moment of life - we should value it, and the place we inhabit so temporarily. We are responsible for this world, and collectively.

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Important issues in my electorate

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Important policy documents

The Climate Change Coalition believes Australia must:

*Ratify the Kyoto Protocol and support binding emission targets for all nations beyond 2012.
*The prime minister should immediately establish a risk assessment team, managed like a war cabinet, and include the opposition leader and premiers.
*Ensure Australia's emissions peak well before 2020.
*Aim to meet the following binding targets relative to 1990 levels:
40% by 2020
70% by 2050 (excluding offsets generated offshore).
*Take global leadership by proposing initiatives to encourage developing countries to accept targets.
*Set a mandatory target of 30% electricity generation from renewable sources by 2020.
*Oppose nuclear power.
*Establish a nationwide moratorium on new coal fired power stations and new coal export projects until their carbon emissions can be safely sequestered.
*Implement an internationally linked emissions trading scheme.
*Auction emission permits, using the revenue to encourage new low emission technologies, efficiency & conservation.
*Do not compensate existing carbon emitters.
*Include the agricultural sector in carbon trading at the earliest opportunity.
*Include aviation and shipping in emissions reduction and trading at the earliest opportunity. More
*Introduce energy efficiency standards for motor vehicles, requiring improvements consistent with the emissions reduction targets and world's best practice.
*Emphasise energy efficiency and conservation by expanding mandatory energy performance standards to cover all energy-using appliances and equipment in line with world's best practice.
*Eliminate perverse subsidies which promote emissions.