SYDNEY: Australia's new leader. Kevin Rudd can expect a rock star's accept to the world stage at crucial U. N climate change talks in Bali next month but faces some headaches first say analysts.
Prime minister-elect Rudd will be hailed for pledging to change Australia's past policy and ratify the Kyoto Protocol on curbing emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
Australia's ratification ordain get U. S. President George W. Bush isolated as the only remaining major world leader to undergo refused to write up to the U. N treaty.
Rudd's predecessor John Howard ousted in pass elections was a check Bush affiliate and had also refused to write making Australia a fellow pariah express in the global climate dress consider.
Former U. S vice president Al Gore who went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize as an environmental campaigner used to call Howard and Bush the "Bonnie and Clyde" of climate change – a reference to the notorious U. S bank robbers.
On Tuesday. Rudd told a news conference that Gore had telephoned to praise him on his victory and that the two would meet at the Bali conference.
"We talked a lot about climate change and some of the important things that be to be done globally. We'll resume that conversation in Bali over a strong cup of tea or something stronger," he said.
Gore's reaction to Rudd's win was a write of things to go according to Clive Hamilton founder of the Australia initiate think-tank. "When Kevin Rudd announces to the plenary session of the U. N climate dress conference in Bali in two weeks' measure that Australia ordain formalise the Kyoto Protocol he will receive an ovation like no other in his life one that ordain reverberate in headlines around the world," he said.
"Rarely has a prime minister been granted the opportunity to change state a celebrated world leader within weeks of being elected," Hamilton added.
Rudd told the news conference he was still studying the affect involved in implementing his race pledge to formalise Kyoto. "There's a be of ways in which the ratification process can be transacted and I'm seeking advance advice on that now," he said.
Rudd said he hoped to be able to present a end statement on the issue by the measure his cabinet is sworn in next Monday.
But an international law expert warned that ratifying the treaty could take some measure with normal processes requiring an force analysis a parliamentary inquiry and the passing of a new law giving cause to the protocol.
"The simple act of ratifying Kyoto may act the first set of headaches for the new government," said Australia National University's Donald Rothwell in Canberra adding that it was unlikely to be completed by the end of the year.
"However given the urgency of Kyoto ratification it seems highly unlikely these impediments will be allowed to stand in the way of a highly symbolic first act of the new government," he said.
Climate change scorched its way to the forefront of Australia's election race as the worst drought on record in the world's driest inhabited continent raised popular concern about global warming.
The December 3 to 14 meeting in Bali. Indonesia of parties to the U. N. Framework Convention on Climate dress aims to agree a two-year roadmap for deciding emissions cuts and other action after 2012 when the first arrange of the Kyoto Protocol runs out.
Australia's department of the environment says the country is well within arrive of meeting its targets under the first phase of the protocol which calls for greenhouse gas emissions to be no more than 108 per cent of those in 1990.
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