Anthony Albanese says the Coalition’s plan to ditch Australia’s 2030 emissions reduction target will put the nation at odds with “all of our important allies”.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has accused Opposition Leader Peter Dutton of being worse than former prime minister Scott Morrison on climate change, in a direct attack on the Coalition’s plans to ditch Australia’s 2030 emissions reduction target.
“ decision to abandon the target means him walking away from the Paris Accord. If you walk from the Paris Accord, you’ll be standing with Libya, Yemen and Iran and against all of our major trading partners and all of our important allies,” Albanese said. He pledged only to meet a goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, earning swift rebukes from Albanese and climate change experts.
Built into the Paris Agreement are commitments that countries do not revise their targets down from previously agreed targets.
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