AM - Beazley releases energy policy: "TONY EASTLEY: Despite the preselection battles, Labor leader Kim Beazley is determined to get on with business.

And today he's set to release the party's energy policy and it's promising to set Labor apart from the Coalition.

It involves ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, embraces a carbon-emissions trading system, and asks more from new home owners.

Karen Percy reports.

KAREN PERCY: Labor's plan aims to cut Australia's greenhouse emissions by 60 per cent, by 2050. Its first step will be for Australia to ratify the Kyoto protocol on greenhouse gases.

Labor's Environment Spokesman, Anthony Albanese.

ANTHONY ALBANESE: We'll establish a national emissions trading scheme, because we believe that Kyoto brings with it market base mechanisms to encourage the use of new technology.

But we'll go much further than that, and today we'll have a number of immediate and innovative practical policy measures designed to get Australia on the road to a carbon-constrained economy.

KAREN PERCY: Like the Government, the Opposition is looking at finding cleaner ways to use fossil fuels, like geosequestration, which buries the emissions from burning coal. It's also looking to make greater use of technologies that convert gas to liquids.

Anthony Albanese.

ANTHONY ALBANESE: What we need if we're going to avoid dangerous climate change, is to use all forces at our disposal to actually get to that target.

KAREN PERCY: Does that include nuclear?

ANTHONY ALBANESE: No. Labor believes when it comes to nuclear, that there are a range of problems which haven't been resolved. For a start, it doesn't stack up economically in Australia, but also the issues of nuclear waste mean that it's simply not an appro"