Scott Morrison is yearning for a Donald Trump victory, writes MrKRudd
A year out from Barack Obama's election in 2008, John Howard made a stunning admission that he thought Americans should be praying for a Republican victory. Ideologically this was unremarkable. But the fact Howard said so publicly was because he knew just how uncomfortable an Obama victory would be for him given his refusal to withdraw our troops from Iraq.
Former vice-president Joe Biden has put at the centre of his campaign a historic plan to fight climate change both at home and abroad. On his first day in office, he has promised to return the US to the Paris Agreement. And he recently unveiled an unprecedented $2 trillion green investment plan, including the complete decarbonisation of the domestic electricity system by 2035.
No other government in the world is digging their heels in like this. None. It is nothing more than an accounting trick to allow Australia to do less. Perhaps the greatest irony is that this "overachievement" was also in large part because of the mitigation actions of our government. In 2014, the Liberal government explained our existing Paris target on the basis that it was the same as what the Americans were doing. In reality, the Obama administration planned to achieve the same cut of 26 to 28 per cent on 2005 emissions by 2025 – not 2030 as we pledged and sought to disguise.
Democratic presidential nominee former vice-president Joe Biden will ramp up US climate change policy if he wins in November.For our part, the government insists that it won't "set a target without a plan". But governments exist to do the hard work.
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