Government's proposed carbon cuts inadequate in the extreme

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uggestions by the Federal Government that Australia will reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by 26 per cent, based on 2005 figures, is inadequate in the extreme.

Ross Garnaut - considering emissions
in a global context.

Australia is clearly among the world’s worst polluters of the atmosphere and so it should be declaring a cut of at least 80 per cent and taking evidence of how that will happen to the Paris climate conference later this year.

Consider these numbers from the Garnaut Review - “Australia’s emissions in a global context”.

Ross Garnaut was commissioned by the Australian Government to provide an independent update to his 2008 Climate Change Review. He is also an independent expert adviser to the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee.

The Garnaut Climate Change Review—Update 2011 released a series of papers in February and March 2011 addressing developments across a range of areas including:

-      climate change science and impacts,

-      international mitigation progress,

-      carbon pricing, land,

-      innovation, and

-      the electricity sector.

Professor Garnaut delivered his final report to the Prime Minister on 31 May 2011.