At the meeting, two weeks ago, attendees were asked to fill in a form and list their climate change issues. Member for Eden-Monaro, Dr Mike Kelly, who spoke at the meeting, promised to relay local concerns to Ms Wong's office.

Speaking to the Summit Sun just after receiving the distillation of local input, Dr Kelly said: "The common theme was that there was a great desire for a national feed in tariff."

This is the tariff applied to anyone generating electricity from renewable sources and feeding the excess into the grid.

Both the ACT and South Australia have introduced schemes but there is no national scheme. The development of a national feed in tariff in Germany had a big effect, encouraging individual households and small businesses to install renewable energy sources.

Dr Kelly said: "The government is involved with the states and territories through COAG (Council of Australian Governments) and is locked in negotiations with work underway on national feed in tariff discussions."

The other issue that came from local input was the endorsement of the Clean Energy For Eternity 50/50 by 2020 goal. The goal relates to 50 per cent increase in renewable energy use and 50 per cent lower emissions by 2020.

Many people said they would like to see this set as an interim goal in the Government's White Paper on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.

Dr Kelly said that there had also been queries on "clean coal" questioning its viability.

However Dr Kelly said that the huge take up of coal by India and especially China meant that we had to deal with the issue of coal.

"It remains the single most urgent issue," Dr Kelly maintains and suggested that government investment in clean coal technology would bring forward the timelines for something that has "a lot of potential".

Dr Kelly said that there had also been a lot of comment asking for the government to accelerate the development of solar power.