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Rudd admits 'different APC perspectives'
AAP - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has acknowledged "different perspectives" within the region over his proposal for an Asia Pacific Community (APC) by 2020.
Mr Rudd announced his vision for an APC to enhance regional security in June and has
had special envoy Richard Woolcott touring the region in recent months, canvassing
opinion on the plan.
The prime minister will have a chance to discuss to idea further when he meets
regional government heads on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
(APEC) leaders summit this weekend.
In a speech to a CEO's summit on Friday, Mr Rudd said ongoing growth in the region
required the right structures to deal with economic, political, security and
environmental challenges.
Mr Woolcott has delivered an interim report to the government and Mr Rudd said it
had made two things clear.
"First, there is great interest in the region about the sort of institutions we need
for the future," he told chief executives.
"We have for the last six months been engaging in a regional conversation with our
friends and partners and inevitably there will be different perspectives along the
way. That is natural and that is good.
"Second, thinking about the detail of how our region might evolve will continue to
develop. This conversation about the future of our region will take some time but
it's an important conversation."
The prime minister promoted the need for all nations - developed and developing to
work together on climate change, warning to do otherwise could have catastrophic
consequences.
"Action by all major emitters is required to avert dangerous impacts of climate
change," Mr Rudd said.
"Even if developed countries reduce their emissions to zero, current trends in
developing countries could see greenhouse gases in the atmosphere rise to 650 parts
per million by 2050, and further after that.
"As a result, global average temperatures would likely rise more than three degrees
above pre-industrial levels. This change would bring high risks of adverse and
potentially massive consequences for the global environment and the global economy."
He singled out China and the United States - the world's two biggest emitters - as
crucial participants in any action to address the problem of global warming.
Mr Rudd used his audience with business leaders to again press the need for nations
to work in a coordinated fashion to tackle the global financial crisis, using fiscal
and monetary policy, as well as better regulation to deal with the current turmoil.
And he predicted Australia could emerge stronger from the economic crisis because of
its reform agenda in areas like education, infrastructure and cutting red tape.
Mr Rudd will meet New Zealand's new prime minister John Key later on Friday
Mr Rudd announced his vision for an APC to enhance regional security in June and has
had special envoy Richard Woolcott touring the region in recent months, canvassing
opinion on the plan.
The prime minister will have a chance to discuss to idea further when he meets
regional government heads on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
(APEC) leaders summit this weekend.
In a speech to a CEO's summit on Friday, Mr Rudd said ongoing growth in the region
required the right structures to deal with economic, political, security and
environmental challenges.
Mr Woolcott has delivered an interim report to the government and Mr Rudd said it
had made two things clear.
"First, there is great interest in the region about the sort of institutions we need
for the future," he told chief executives.
"We have for the last six months been engaging in a regional conversation with our
friends and partners and inevitably there will be different perspectives along the
way. That is natural and that is good.
"Second, thinking about the detail of how our region might evolve will continue to
develop. This conversation about the future of our region will take some time but
it's an important conversation."
The prime minister promoted the need for all nations - developed and developing to
work together on climate change, warning to do otherwise could have catastrophic
consequences.
"Action by all major emitters is required to avert dangerous impacts of climate
change," Mr Rudd said.
"Even if developed countries reduce their emissions to zero, current trends in
developing countries could see greenhouse gases in the atmosphere rise to 650 parts
per million by 2050, and further after that.
"As a result, global average temperatures would likely rise more than three degrees
above pre-industrial levels. This change would bring high risks of adverse and
potentially massive consequences for the global environment and the global economy."
He singled out China and the United States - the world's two biggest emitters - as
crucial participants in any action to address the problem of global warming.
Mr Rudd used his audience with business leaders to again press the need for nations
to work in a coordinated fashion to tackle the global financial crisis, using fiscal
and monetary policy, as well as better regulation to deal with the current turmoil.
And he predicted Australia could emerge stronger from the economic crisis because of
its reform agenda in areas like education, infrastructure and cutting red tape.
Mr Rudd will meet New Zealand's new prime minister John Key later on Friday
