Labor’s climate target is not based on the best scientific and economic advice, experts say | micksfoley LisaVisentin
Labor’s climate target is not based on the best scientific and economic advice, experts say, arguing it falls short of Australia’s commitment to the Paris Agreement, will lead to more severe damage from global warming and cost the economy more than deeper, earlier pollution cuts would.revealed proposed legislation that would enshrine Labor’s target to cut emissions 43 per cent by 2030, based on 2005 levels, and to hit net zero by 2050.
and intense under 2 degrees of warming, while limiting the temperature rise to 1.5 degrees would mean 50 per cent fewer people around the world would suffer water shortages. Australia committed to the Paris Agreement in 2015, signing up to an international pledge for collective action that would limit global warming to as close to 1.5 degrees on pre-industrial levels as possible.
Albanese this week defended the target as “ambitious” and said the party would stick to it because it had an election mandate on the policy.
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