The debate around emission carry-over credits at COP25 could have big implications for Australia.
Among those rules to be worked out, is whether or not Australia will be allowed to use"carry-over credits" to meet its pledged emissions reductions.On the weekend, the Government released its emissions projections.
There's a cruel and creepy world where it's apparently perfectly fine for adults to shred a 16-year-old to pieces, writes Lauren Rosewarne. That amounts to a reduction of 452 million tonnes over the period — 411 million tonnes of which are going to be made up of credits.Using those credits doesn't change the actual emissions emitted by Australia and doesn't help the world get closer to net zero emissions in the second half of the century, which was agreed to at Paris.For one thing, the Paris Agreement period is not under the Kyoto Protocol, so it's not clear why credits from Kyoto would count towards Paris.
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