Public promises to
reduce society’s carbon dioxide emissions are hollow and will have no
useful impact at all.
Those who understand the numbers surrounding the climate
change conversation know that the reduction of world-wide emissions needs to be
far in excess of anything to date suggested and consequentially labelled a
target.
A story in today’s Melbourne
Age headed: “Big carbon cuts needed: report says”, notes that Australia
needs to make cuts of nearly 30 per cent by 2020 and more than 80 per cent by
2030 to play its role in averting world-wide climate change.
The Climate Change Authority, according to the story, will
release its draft recommendations this week detailing how much and how quickly
Australia should be cutting its emissions.
The authority, chaired by former Reserve Bank governor
Bernie Fraser, will release the report despite a pledge from the new Coalition
government to dismantle it as part of its pre-election pledge dispense with
most of the Labor-period climate change policy and its appointed bodies.
The Coalition government won office with the promise to
reduce our carbon dioxide emissions to just five per cent below 2000 levels.
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