Saturday 22 November 2014

AUSTRALIA IN TOP FOUR NATIONS NOT DOING ENOUGH ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Mark Butler MP.

Shadow Minister for Environment
 Climate Change and Water

Date:  21 November 2014
Australia once more looks like an international embarrassment on the global stage under Tony Abbott as we are listed among the top four nations who won’t meet their emissions reduction targets.
The United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) fifth Emissions Gap Report has identified Australia in the top four countries who won’t meet their international commitments on tackling climate change since Tony Abbott’s globally embarrassing head-in-the-sand stance.
The United Nations report, written after the release of Tony Abbott’s Direct Action slush fund – which will use billions of taxpayer dollars to pay polluters to pollute, increase cost of living and increase power bills – further confirms that Australia was on target to reduce its emissions until Tony Abbott started winding back the clock on climate change.
Tony Abbott is taking Australia backwards, while the rest of the world moves forward.
The United Nations report demonstrates that under the carbon price mechanism, Australia’s carbon pollution reductions reduced by seven per cent – for the first time in history.
World leaders, including some of Australia’s largest trading partners, have pledged to increase their emissions reduction targets. Tony Abbott would rather pay polluters to pollute and keep his head in the sand.
Just this week he claimed in front of world leaders that “We do deliver on our reductions targets, unlike some other countries” while this report from UNEP has found otherwise.
Tony Abbott is an international embarrassment when it comes to climate change.
Tony Abbott is the only person who is yet to realise Australia is missing out while the rest of the world looks towards clean energy futures.
All of the experts, economists and climate scientists, agree that Tony Abbott’s so-called Direct Action plan won’t work.

It won’t lower carbon pollution, but it will cost households billions of dollars.

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