Australia's carbon budget is being whittled away

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he World Wildlife Fund, or WWF, yesterday released analysis suggesting that if the world were serious about limiting global warming to 2 degrees, Australia would consume its remaining allowable budget for carbon emissions within 11 years.

For those unfamiliar with the concept, the global carbon budget is an attempt to quantify the cumulative amount of greenhouse gases the world’s people could emit if we wanted to have a reasonable probability of keeping temperature rise to a particular level.

Read Tristan Edis’ story on the Climate Spectator - “11 years left on Australia's carbon budget.”