Australia's Rudd will sign Kyoto pact if wins vote - Reuters

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Source: Reuters

Australia's Rudd will sign Kyoto pact if wins vote
Sun Nov 18, 2007 11:55pm EST

By Rob Taylor

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's Labor Party leader
Kevin Rudd said on Monday he would lead his country's
delegation to December's Bali climate summit and sign
the Kyoto pact if he wins power at this weekend's
parliamentary elections.

Rudd, strongly leading conservative prime minister
and Kyoto critic John Howard in polls, said the fight
against catastrophic climate shift would be his top
priority if he won on November 24.

"I want to simply demonstrate that we have gone
from outside the tent to inside the tent, I think it is
important to make that statement," Rudd told the
Australian Financial Review.

Australia, the world's biggest greenhouse polluter
per head, has along with the United States refused
to sign the Kyoto pact, with Howard arguing it would
harm the economy and cost jobs.

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