Missed opportunity': Australia avoids tougher emissions reduction targets

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
said he was "disappointed" with the
 outcome of the Madrid climate talks.

Australia has avoided tougher emissions reduction targets by banding together with a small group of nations to oppose a measure that would have stopped it using controversial "carry-over credits" to meet its climate goals.

The United Nations' annual climate change summit wound up in the Spanish capital of Madrid on Sunday without the consensus required among the almost 200 member countries to finalise new international standards on emissions reductions.

Read the story from The Age by Mike Foley - “‘Missed opportunity': Australia avoids tougher emissions reduction targets.”