The electorate will not forgive the Rudd Government for holding back global progress towards responsible emissions reductions, the Australian Greens today.

Climate Change Minister Penny Wong is taking the Howard Government's negotiating tactics to the Poznan meeting, adopting the same positions and even flying the same negotiators, led by Jan Adams and Robert Owen Jones, to the conference. The Greens now provide the only real alternative for voters who want to see action to protect the climate.

"Australians who voted last year to end the Howard decade of climate denial will be deeply troubled by what the Rudd Government is doing," Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Climate Change Spokesperson, Senator Christine Milne, said.

"As Minister Wong prepares to deliver plans for Australia which will refuse to grapple seriously with the problem, she is laying the groundwork in Poznan by helping to hold back global progress.

"The clear reports from Poznan are that Australia is still blocking the 25-40% negotiating range in order to justify what it plans to do next week.

"There is no way that Penny Wong will allow the rest of the world to show up Australia's backwardness by adopting a 25-40% negotiating range.

"Nobody should be in any doubt that the Rudd Government is intent on trying to save its own image at the expense of people and ecosystems from the poverty-stricken in Bangladesh to Queensland's coastal communities to farmers in the Murray-Darling."

Australia won runner up "Fossil of the Day" award from the Climate Action Network yesterday for supporting Japan's move to shift the agreed emissions baseline from 1990 to 2000.

The Rudd Government is also playing a dangerous game over forestry negotiations.

"The hypocrisy of continuing to log our own tremendous carbon stores in Tasmania and Victoria while lecturing Indonesia and PNG on protecting their own forests is beginning to provoke angry responses.

"It is utterly reprehensible that the Rudd Government will not take on the State Governments and require them to stop logging these magnificent stores of carbon and biodiversity that are our beautiful forests.

"Australians voted 12 months ago to move on from Howard-era climate politics, and they will be deeply troubled to see that very little has changed under Kevin Rudd."