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"Prime minister Anthony Albanese has set a 2035 emissions reduction target of
62 to 70 per cent, at the lower end of expectations following an intense
campaign by big business interests, and despite a catastrophic forecast of
climate impacts released earlier this week.
“Climate change is real …. and we have acted on the science,” Albanese told a
media conference in Sydney on Thursday. He said the government had accepted the
advice of the Climate Change Authority, which started out consulting on a range
of 65 per cent to 75 per cent below 2005 levels, before narrowing it to a lower
range.
The target came after a flurry of announcements, including a grim outlook from
the government’s climate risk assessment, approval of Woodside’s north-west
shelf LNG “carbon bomb”, a delay in the country’s first offshore wind tender,
and the successful outcome of the country’s biggest battery storage tender.
Environmental groups had urged the government to set a target of at least 80
per cent below 2005 levels by 2035, with some arguing the target should be “net
zero” to stay in line with the Paris target of trying to cap average global
warming as close to 1.5°C as possible.
Progressive business groups led by the likes of Fortescue and Atlassian had
argued for a target of at least 75 per cent, while other business lobbies
wanted a target in the low 60s at most, worried about the cost of action
without taking into account the cost of inaction, put by the climate risk
report at around $45 billion a year just on disaster recovery.
The federal Coalition has not proposed a target, mostly because it is too wary
of many of its own MPs who argue there should be no target at all, with some
still suggesting that climate science is a hoax."
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
