Inter Press Service: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Labor Party has made much of its plans to tackle climate change even before it came to power with victory in the country’s 2007 election. Little wonder, then, that the government has faced heavy criticism following its decision to delay the introduction of its centrepiece emissions trading scheme (ETS) until at least 2013, a move which goes against the international trend for climate change policies. "What absolute political cowardice. What …