Following the Copenhagen Agreement, Australian Prime Minister laid out his country's perspective and hailed the agreement to be a landmark in the fiight against climate change.

In Copenhagen’s glitzy airport, there’s a brightly lit billboard bearing a picture of an ageing President Obama. "I’m sorry," says the legend. "We could have stopped climate change. We didn’t."

Any agreement from the Copenhagen climate change conference is likely to amplify the ‘green’ threat to wealth-creating free trade that is necessary to cut global carbon emissions say the authors from Institute of Public Affairs in Australia.

The Communities Secretary points out the critical role local governments would play in tackling climate change effectively and bear the responsibility of bringing together various stakeholders to do the best for the community.