New government paints Australia green.

The article reports that new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has approved the Kyoto Protocol in Australia. This move was coincided by the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference in Indonesia. The new Prime Minister has also committed to reduce the nation's emissions by 60% of 2000 by 2050. The administration has also pressured Japan to drop plans for a summer hunt of humpback whales in the Southern Ocean. Despite these progress, the new administration is still resisting calls to overturn federal approval of a controversial pulp mill that poses serious air and water pollution risks.