Abbott Government's emission target is 'pathetic' - Lord Deben

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Lord Deben - Australia's
emissions target 'pathetic'.

ustralia’s “pathetic” 2030 emissions reduction target shows the country has opted out of the global effort to limit warming, according to the head of the British government’s climate change advisory body.

Lord Deben, previously a minister in the government of Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, said Australia’s 26% to 28% reduction in emissions by 2030, based on 2005 levels was “simply not enough”.

Tony Abbott defends 2030 emissions target criticised as 'pathetically' low

 “Australia is fundamentally out of step and this decision puts Australia among the ‘don’t cares’ of the international community,” said Deben, who is the chairman of the Committee on Climate Change.

“Global warming won’t wait for Mr Abbott and his government. Mr Abbott’s hubris is staggering.”

Read the Guardian story - “'Tony Abbott’s hubris is staggering': UK's climate adviser one missions target”.

Victoria about to review Climate Change Act

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ictoria is about to review its State’s Climate Change Act of 2010.

Nicholas Stern - warnings for humanity.

Submissions are presently being called for from the public (“Climate Change Review Submissions Now Open”) and common sense – if there is such a thing – suggests the Act should massively strengthened, rather than weakened in any way.

Reading the latest work of Nicholas Stern (famous for writing the 2006 “Stern Review” commissioned by the British Government to consider the economics of climate change), “Why Are We Waiting?: The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change”, humanity has no other option but to tighten climate acts and strengthen environmental protections.

Meanwhile, ClimateProgress reports that in the U.S. republicans are determined to “gut” the country’s environmental protections.

Read the ClimateProgress story - “EPA Slams House Republicans For Trying To Gut Environmental Protections”.