A technical journey about fairness and justice on emissions

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rendan Mackey takes readers on a technical journey of fairness, reasonableness and justice as his considers Australia’s emissions pledge.

Professor Brendan Mackey.

Writing on Climate Spectator, Mackey says, “Australia is at a critical juncture.

“It can choose to ignore the 2-degree commitment and simply adopt an arbitrary mitigation target that suits its short-term economic national interests. Or it can choose a mitigation target that is justifiable and consistent with its fair share of the global carbon budget.”

His story, “An objective way to decide on a fair Australian emissions pledge”, says, “An arbitrary, self-serving target would necessitate special pleading with the international community at the Paris climate talks, and would be certain to prompt plenty more critical questions from other countries.”