Take Two: Climate Change

The world is full of ironies...

Take these two headlines today for example:

Carbon emissions growth - we're world's No 1

Malaysia's carbon emissions have spiralled since 1990, increasing faster than any country on earth, a United Nations report released today said.

The UN Human Development Report on fighting climate change showed Malaysia's carbon emissions grew by 221 percent from 1990 to 2004, placing it in 26th place on a global league table of emitters...

Down Under, a former Malaysian - Penny Wong, a former Sabahan, has just been elected as the Minister for Climate Change and Water, the first Australian from Asian background to do so. In a world where carbon trading, carbon emissions and carbon footprint have become global buzzwords, her portfolio can be seen as one of the most important under Kevin Rudd's new government.

Read the following article from The Sydney Morning Herald.

Climate of change: a proud day for Labor's rising star

IN MANY ways Penny Wong's is a very Australian story.

The woman who can trace her family back to 1836 and one of South Australia's original settlers was born in Malaysia and moved to Australia as a seven-year-old .

Yesterday the 39-year-old former lawyer was catapulted from relative obscurity to one of the most important jobs in the Rudd administration as minister for climate change and water...