Australia's poor report card on environment

Australia's poor report card on environment :

"New Zealand ranked first in the world in environmental performance, followed by Sweden, Finland, the Czech Republic and Britain. Like the United States, which was ranked 28th, Australia's energy and climate change performance lagged many other countries."

Well, we'd better clean up our act,then. But we keep saying and the Kyoto protocol still isn't signed because what we have is better...