Climate $$$

At today's meeting of the Council of Austrlian Governments, the PM announced a new climate change adaptation centre to the tune of $126 million as well as an additional $44 million to CSIRO to support a ramping up of research efforts on climate change and its consequences. This represents a significant boost to the nations' efforts to understand climate change consequences. However, the PM balked at committing the nation to greenhouse emissions reduction targets. So the States are left again to go it alone.