Australia failing climate targets as Paris deal comes into force

Malcolm Turnbull delivers a
speech at Heads of States'
Statements Ceremony of the
COP21 World Climate Change
Conference 2015 in Paris.

A new assessment of the Coalition government’s climate change policies says Australia will fall well short of its “inadequate” Paris climate targets, and will likely increase emissions by nearly as much as it has promised to cut them.

The assessment from Climate Action Tracker says that Australia’s target falls well short of the effort needed to limit warming to below 2°C, let alone the stronger aspirational target of 1.5°C that was included in the Paris Agreement.

“If most other countries followed the Australia approach, global warming would exceed  3°C to 4°C,” the report says.

The Climate Action Tracker report is not the first to highlight Australia’s pathetically inadequate climate policies, nor will it be the last. A slew of reports is expected in coming days and weeks as the Paris Agreement comes into force from Friday and new climate talks begin in Marrakesh in Morocco on Monday.

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