Bonn confernce over, Australia's pollution targets examined for credibility

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he latest round of Bonn climate negotiations has concluded with modest progress being made on the Paris agreement for the end of the year, The Climate Institute reports.

Eyes now turn more sharply to the credibility of Australia’s new post-2020 pollution target to be announced in July, The Climate Institute said today as it released a guide to Australia’s upcoming post-2020 pollution reduction targets.

“Climate negotiations are difficult because international frameworks put pressure on countries to take more action at home,” said, Deputy CEO of The Climate Institute, Erwin Jackson from Bonn, Germany.

“Hours of challenging work on refining the draft Paris agreement has made modest progress, and at the next meeting in August countries will have a more streamlined draft agreement for the final run into the Paris summit at the end of the year.”

The end of year Paris meeting aims to forge an agreement which creates an expectation that all countries will ratchet up action to help limit average global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius (2°C) above pre-industrial levels.

Read The Climate Institute story - “Countries make progress to Paris as new guide launched to assess Australia's pollution ambitions”.