Australia’s Kyoto loophole eight times larger than entire Pacific emissions

Children symbolically representing climate
 change greet Australian prime minister
 Scott Morrison as he arrives for the Pacific
 Islands Forum in Tuvalu on Wednesday.

Australia has been accused of using a loophole to back out of a promised emissions cut nearly eight times greater than the combined annual fossil fuel pollution released by the rest of the Pacific.

The prime minister, Scott Morrison, arrived in Tuvalu for the Pacific Islands Forum on Wednesday, facing calls that he take steps to quickly reverse Australia’s rising greenhouse gas emissions, including moving away from coal.

Pacific leaders are also urging Australia to drop its plan to use an accounting loophole to meet the emissions reduction pledge it made at the 2015 Paris climate conference.

Read the story from The Guardian by Adam Morton - “Australia’s Kyoto loophole eight times larger than entire Pacific emissions.”