Politics
Australia has sought to scrap from a key United Nations document a reference to limiting global warming to 1.5C amid mounting pressure on the country to strengthen its 2030 emissions cuts.
Opinion
The National party’s eleventh hour deal to support net zero emisssions by 2050 highlights the Morrison Government’s lack of planning for a “just transition” writes Robert MacDonald
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BHP has declared the world has yet to show collective action needed to meet climate change goals and has committed to spend up to $US4 billion ($5.4 billion) by 2030 on its own operations to meet targets.
An alarming report by a UN scientific panel calls changes to the climate “unprecedented,” says it is “unequivocal” humans are to blame and lays out the case for drastic cuts to emissions in order to hold the global temperature to under the limits set by the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Senior federal government minister Angus Taylor is hailing “breakneck” renewables growth for Australia edging closer to reaching its 2030 reduction target.
The growth of ‘carbon farming’ has drawn heavy criticism for the unforeseen consequences of fencing off large parcels of rural land for the purpose of using natural vegetation to offset carbon dioxide emissions. Industry expert John Connor warns we should not overlook the benefits.
