Rudd's 5 per cent emissions cut panned by critics - Environment - NZ Herald News

But he was rebuked by an activist while announcing his 2020 targets at the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday.

"No, that's not good enough," a woman in the audience yelled before she was restrained.
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The scheme will now be much more generous to business. Straight off the blocks, the scheme will hand more than A$4 billion ($4.92 billion) to the coal industry to compensate it for efforts to tackle climate change.

Some households will also receive compensation for the scheme, which the Government says will push up electricity and gas bills by A$6 a week. Electricity prices will rise by 18 per cent and gas prices by 12 per cent.

Is Coca-Cola deliberately injecting over 1.9 million metric tons of "pollutants" annually into our drinks?

Worldwide, Coca-Cola’s operations emitted 1.9 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2), according to what it told the Carbon Disclosure Project last year.

Coke won't reveal how much CO2 that it uses to inject into its beverages, but it is estimated to be even larger.

Coca-Cola spokeswoman Mary Kathryn Covert told CNSNews.com that the world’s largest beverage company did sell 22.7 billion gallons of soft drinks worldwide in 2007, the latest year for which statistics are available.

"We produce 2,800 beverage products, some of which are carbonated. The amount of CO2 varies in each one of our beverages, so for instance, a Coke Classic will have a different amount of carbon dioxide than a Sprite," she told CNSNewscom.

"We consider the amount of CO2 in each one of the beverages -- and therefore the amount of CO2 we use in total -- to be a trade secret. As you know, The Coca-Cola Company is famously protective of our secret formula." [Via Heliogenic Climate Change]