Flannery tells industry: climate change can be slowed

14 February , 2007
From ABC National "PM" (Aust)

MARK COLVIN: The Australian of the Year, Professor Tim Flannery, has told members of the Australian Workers Union that it's still not too late for their industries to slow the pace of climate change.

The AWU represents workers from many of the country's highest energy users, including steel, gold and aluminium mines among them.

Today at the AWU's national conference on Queensland's Gold Coast, Professor Flannery described how chances to arrest the effects of climate change have been lost in the past, and recommended ways that the unionists could make a difference in the future.

Among his possible solutions, investing in Australia's untapped resources of geothermal and solar energy.

Alison Caldwell reports.

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