Environment Minister is misleading voters - New Daily

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nvironment Minister Greg Hunt is misleading voters when he claims that Australia will “breeze past” its carbon emission targets, official figures reveal.

Environment Minister,
Greg Hunt.

On Thursday Mr Hunt said that Australia is “well on track to achieve our target of reducing emissions by five per cent from 2000 levels by 2020″, following the first Emission Reduction Fund (ERF) auction.

His unambiguous confidence, however, is in stark contrast to the figures released by the Clean Energy Regulator, which carried out the auction.

Read The New Daily story here: “Greg Hunt’s dubious carbon claims exposed”.