Experts have warned Australia needs to bring down its carbon emissions quickly and it can't afford to wait until 2050 to do so.
Experts say "slow action" on climate change — including reliance on nuclear power to bring down carbon emissions in Australia — could mean global warming continues for longer. Australia's pathway to net zero carbon emissions is under scrutiny after the Coalition said it would walk away from the country's 2030 target.
He said to keep global warming to a specific temperature, there was a limit to the amount of greenhouse gases that could be emitted. This is called the emissions budget. If Australia did not bring its emissions down rapidly, and instead kept emitting greenhouse gases at current levels, he said "we completely blow our greenhouse gas emissions budget". If all countries did this we could not keep temperatures to the 1.5 to 2C limits in the Paris Agreement.
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