Australia floats 'schedule' approach to carbon cuts

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Updated September 21, 2009 11:37:31

Australia's Climate Minister Penny Wong is in New York and she has an idea which could break a critical climate deadlock.

The minister will outline a new legal framework that aims to embrace developing nations without binding them to rigid commitments on greenhouse cuts - a degree of felxibility for the newer economies. The proposal comes as Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he believes time is running out before the big Copenhagen meeting in December.

Presenter: Fran Kelly
Speakers: Penny Wong, Australia's Climate Minister

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