{"id":9293,"date":"2020-11-21T01:53:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T01:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=9293"},"modified":"2020-11-21T01:53:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T01:53:44","slug":"as-morrison-prepares-the-ground-to-ditch-kyoto-credits-liberals-and-labor-both-failing-2030-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/11\/21\/as-morrison-prepares-the-ground-to-ditch-kyoto-credits-liberals-and-labor-both-failing-2030-test\/","title":{"rendered":"AS MORRISON PREPARES THE GROUND TO DITCH KYOTO CREDITS LIBERALS AND LABOR BOTH FAILING 2030 TEST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says the Government is right to reconsider its 2030 climate ambitions, but needs to do far more than just drop the Kyoto-credits loophole if Australia is to join the rest of the world on climate action.<br \/>\n\u201cThe government\u2019s terrible 2030 targets leave Australia exposed. We\u2019re in the critical decade and domestic political games will provide no cover for Australia\u2019s climate-pariah status on the world stage,\u201d Bandt said.<br \/>\n\u201cScott Morrison\u2019s 2030 targets are consistent with Australia warming by over 4 degrees, which means civilisational collapse. The Liberals\u2019 2030 targets are not consistent with the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to well below 2 degrees.<br \/>\n\u201cWith Europe and the United Kingdom looking to cut pollution by well over half by 2030, and the United States having already agreed to cuts of 26-28% on 2005 levels by 2025, five years earlier than Australia, we\u2019re becoming increasingly isolated.<br \/>\n\u201cPresident-Elect Biden has committed to hold a global climate summit in the first 100 days of his Presidency to increase national emissions pledges, and both the Liberal and Labor parties must align Australia\u2019s 2030 targets with the science.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Liberals\u2019 2030 targets have Australia on track for over 4 degrees of heating and Labor is letting Scott Morrison off the hook by having no 2030 targets at all.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Greens adjusted their 2030 and net-zero targets in July to take into account recent science and the reversal of progress since the repeal of the price on carbon &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/greensmps.org.au\/articles\/greens-announce-new-climate-targets-modelling-shows-higher-2030-targets-needed-meet-paris-0\">see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says the Government is right to reconsider its 2030 climate ambitions, but needs to do far more than just drop the Kyoto-credits loophole if Australia is to join the rest of the world on climate action. \u201cThe government\u2019s terrible 2030 targets leave Australia exposed. We\u2019re in the critical decade and domestic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/11\/21\/as-morrison-prepares-the-ground-to-ditch-kyoto-credits-liberals-and-labor-both-failing-2030-test\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AS MORRISON PREPARES THE GROUND TO DITCH KYOTO CREDITS LIBERALS AND LABOR BOTH FAILING 2030 TEST&#8221;<\/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-9293","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\/9293","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=9293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}