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"Prime Minister Scott Morrison is poised to take a 2050 net-zero emissions
target to Glasgow. While this may seem like a milestone, Australia is still
failing to abide by one of the core requirements of the Paris Agreement.
At Paris in 2015, Australia – like the rest of the world – signed up to
toughening our emissions reduction targets every five years. We’ve now reached
that point (factoring in a one-year COVID delay).
Yet Australia’s current 2030 targets remain no more ambitious than those we
produced six years ago, and Morrison has all but ruled out increasing them
ahead of the Glasgow summit.
This means Australia is undermining the international treaty central to
combating climate change – and highlights yet again the need for Australia’s
climate agreements to be written into domestic law. "
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
