Chris Bowen argues for more ambitious emissions targets, raising hopes for new commitments from his government
Chris Bowen told the Cop29 meeting in Baku that the world had to listen to pleas from Pacific nations to stop climate change.Chris Bowen told the Cop29 meeting in Baku that the world had to listen to pleas from Pacific nations to stop climate change.
Scientists say this degree of heating above pre-industrial levels would still lead to disastrous heatwaves and extreme weather events that would devastate lives, livelihoods and nature. Bowen said the stocktake showed “we’ve come far, but not far enough”, and urged the world to listen to Pacific island nations, where climate change was “not seen as subject for negotiation, but an existential and security threat”.
On the new climate commitments due next year – known as nationally determined contributions, or NDCs – he said “we must all strengthen efforts and deliver our highest possible ambition” to accelerate global climate action and the goal of limiting heating to 1.5C alive.given temperatures are rapidly approaching that level and more warming is locked into the climate system.
Australia has faced renewed criticism at Cop29 for its continued support for coal and gas developments and expansions at the same time the government has argued it wanted to be a “renewable energy superpower”. Bowen said the point of Future Made in Australia was “not only to decarbonise and grow our economy, but to help our friends and neighbours decarbonise and develop their economies too”. “We know that we must keep moving, or the world will move past us,” he said.
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