ABC: Australia's biggest oil and gas producer Woodside is now calling for a carbon price.

Photo Woodside Petroleum CEO Peter Coleman says action on climate change is needed "to make our children and grandchildren proud"

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Key points:

• Woodside boss Peter Coleman says the time for Australia to act on climate change is now
• Woodside has joined other resource giants BHP and Rio Tinto in calling for change
• Mr Coleman says individual companies may help change broader corporate resistance to a carbon price 

Speaking on the ABC's The Business, chief executive Peter Coleman said the time to act on climate change was now.
"We need a price on carbon, we need to ensure that the most effective energy gets into the system," he said. 

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"Our legacy needs to be one that both our children and our grandchildren are proud that their parents gave to them and that opportunity is now, so we think there is a will to act, the time is now, and we need to start having good policy debate."