Australia's decisions in conflict with the world

UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon.

Australia’s recent climate change decisions are in stark conflict with what is happening in most countries around the world.

The Tony Abbott-led coalition has unstitched most of the country’s meagre climate change infrastructure leaving us vulnerable at all levels to further climate disruption, while many, from the United Nations down, are pointing to the need for zero net carbon dioxide emissions.

A story published yesterday in the Sydney Morning Herald and today in the Sunday Age tells of the need to have net zero greenhouse gas emissions by this century.

The story headed: “UN talks of tough global climate targets,vague on national action” also points out that 2030 is a pivotal time and one by which we need to reduce emission levels significantly to have any hope of achieving the broadly agreed to two degree level.