Ask your MP to get behind a deadlock-breaking climate levy

We have a great opportunity right now to deliver breakthrough climate action, but we need your help to make it happen.

If you email your local MP today and ask them to get behind good-faith negotiations with the Greens, we can get our proposal for a simple carbon levy through the parliament before winter.

Our proposed levy is a building block for stronger action into the future.

It would use the structures of the government’s emissions trading scheme to charge Australia’s biggest polluters $23 a tonne for their pollution, rising each year, and investing the revenue to support emissions reductions in Australia’s homes and businesses. Half the revenue would go to helping householders.

Our levy sends investors the beginnings of the signal they need, makes sure they know the price will keep rising, and paves the way for stronger action into the future.

Earlier today, our proposal, which was originally put forward by Professor Ross Garnaut, won the strong support of a united group of non-government organisations. This is the first time Australia’s environment groups have united behind a common cause since Australia ratified the Kyoto Protocol.

The government has started negotiations with the Greens towards the proposal, but they need a strong signal from Australians to speed up those negotiations and get a bill before the parliament next month.

You can help make this a reality by emailing your local MP.

Ask them to raise the proposal with their leader – the Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition. Tell them that their constituents are swinging behind the Greens’ simple carbon levy proposal as a way to get climate action started swiftly in Australia. Ask them to get back to you with a response from their leader.

You can find everything you need by clicking through to our website.

Please make the time to do this today and help us get climate action moving in Australia!

Many thanks,

Christine Milne

PS: We know this levy won’t be enough to really tackle the climate crisis, but it will get us started. And, unlike the CPRS, there is no way our levy can hold back action.

Please help us make it a reality by emailing your local MP today.

Senator Christine Milne http://bob-brown.greensmps.org.au/