Be honest Australia, you're not 'meeting and beating' your emissions targets

Optimistic. Prosperous. A country of rare beauty, blessed with abundant natural resources. Australia has all the “golden eggs” needed to position itself as a global leader, to help its Asia-Pacific region leapfrog to a new energy future, and to guarantee Australian prosperity in the process.

The bushfires have not stopped the climate wars.

Watching this summer’s unprecedented firestorms, I was heartbroken by the sheer scale of the human and ecological tragedy. “This must be the tipping point on climate politics in Australia,” I said to myself. “Surely now the politicians will join hands and forge a bipartisan plan for a better future.”

Read the opinion piece form The Sydney Morning Herald by Christiana Figueres - “Be honest Australia, you're not 'meeting and beating' your emissions targets.”