Greens spokesperson for the climate crisis, Adam Bandt MP, has warned that the United Nations Climate Summit has made it abundantly clear that even if global Paris pledges are met, it won\u2019t be enough to avoid catastrophic global warming.
\n\u201cThis summit made it crystal clear that even if Australia meets its Paris commitments, that won\u2019t be enough,\u201d said Mr Bandt.
\n\u201cThe world\u2019s Paris pledges, including Australia\u2019s, have us on track for a catastrophic 3.4 degrees of global warming.
\n\u201cScientists at the summit say we need to a least triple current Paris pledges to stay below 2 degrees, but instead Scott Morrison is lifting pollution. Scott Morrison is now a direct threat to life.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s great to pull plastics out of the sea, but the biggest threat to our oceans is climate change and Scott Morrison is making global warming worse.”
\n\u201cA true leader would front up to the UN Climate Summit, and explain why they\u2019re desperately trying to open new coal mines in the middle of a climate emergency,\u201d said Greens leader Richard Di Natale.
\n\u201cInstead, Scott Morrison is too busy hanging out with his fellow climate denier Donald Trump and Australia\u2019s richest coal baron \u2013 while unashamedly boasting that he shares many of the same backwards and views as his host.
\n\u201cIn an attempt to deflect blame for Australia\u2019s carbon exports he\u2019s urging China to reduce their use of fossil fuels \u2013 at the same time his Resources Minister is trying to flog off ever more coal to India. By seeking to ignore reality, he\u2019s clearly found a mentor in the most dangerous US President in history.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Greens spokesperson for the climate crisis, Adam Bandt MP, has warned that the United Nations Climate Summit has made it abundantly clear that even if global Paris pledges are met, it won\u2019t be enough to avoid catastrophic global warming. \u201cThis summit made it crystal clear that even if Australia meets its Paris commitments, that won\u2019t … Continue reading “Meeting Paris targets won't protect us from catastrophic global warming: Greens”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}