Australia’s Carryover Climate Credits Are Setting a Dangerous Precedent

What do Prime Minister Scott Morrison, US President Donald Trump and Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro have in common?

Well, Trump’s taken to Twitter to spew the conspiracy that global warming was “created by and for the Chinese”, Morrison told Australians “don’t be scared” when he brought a lump of coal into parliament in 2017, and Bolsonaro claimed environmental issues only matter to “vegans who eat vegetables”.

Last year, all three countries were literally up in flames while their respective leaders stonewalled against acting on climate change.

But even so, Australia’s the only nation that’s attempting to cheat the Paris Agreement by using ‘carryover climate credits’ from a previous treaty.

Read the story from Rolling Stone Magazine by Eden Gillespie - “Australia’s Carryover Climate Credits Are Setting a Dangerous Precedent.”