Posted on 10/25/2021 11:30:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Australia will commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 but will not increase its goal for 2030 at an upcoming U.N. climate summit in Scotland, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Tuesday.
Morrison’s conservative Liberal Party-led government was narrowly re-elected in 2019 with a climate policy that opposed the 2050 net zero target adopted by the opposition center-left Labor Party.
Morrison wrote in an opinion piece published Tuesday in Australian News Corp newspapers that his government will indeed commit to the 2050 net zero goal, but will not up its election pledge to reduce emissions between 26% and 28% below 2005 levels by 2030.
“I said we would meet and beat this target and we will,” Morrison wrote.
Getting to the net zero commitment took political wrangling on the part of Morrison’s ruling party, including winning the support of a rural-based junior coalition member — the Nationals party — with a number of concessions. One of them was that Resources Minister Keith Pitt, who maintains Australia will continue exporting coal for decades, was made the fifth Nationals’ Cabinet minister. Morrison on Monday announced Pitt’s promotion. …
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buy some carbon-credits from Al Gore
How can such smart peeps be so retarded?
Shanghai alone has as many people as Australia. Doesn’t matter much what they do or do not.
It’ll matter to the people of Australia and their standard of living.
I’m talking about “environmental impact” (on a global scale).
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