Paris/New York City deal will not save our reef - Greens

Australia’s lack of follow-through on climate change will leave the Great Barrier Reef “completely cooked” despite it signing the Paris climate deal, the Greens say.

The federal environmental minister, Greg Hunt, has joined leaders from 170 other countries in New York to sign the Paris Agreement to limit global warming by at least 2C.

Hunt says Australia will beat its Kyoto emission reduction targets by 78m tonnes and meet a 2030 target of reducing emissions by 26% to 28% below 2005 levels.

“These are some of the highest targets anywhere in the world and certainly on a per capita basis we’re right at the top,” he told the ABC from New York on Saturday.

Read The Guardian story - “Climate deal won't stop Great Barrier Reef from getting 'cooked', say Greens.”

(The idea that the Paris climate agreement, backed up by signing a few days ago in New York City of documents certifying the deal seems to be a case of mass-delusion for even if all those international promises are realized, global temperatures are still going to increase by more than two degrees, nearly three degrees this century, according to some of the world’s best climate scientists – Robert McLean.)