Let’s be honest: Australia’s claim to have cut climate pollution isn’t as good as it seems

The Tasman Bridge in Hobart during bushfires in 2019. ‘The claimed change in Australian land emissions cannot be assumed to be permanent due to the risk of them being wiped out in a drought, fire or flood,’ writes Adam Morton.

2024-09-03  1231  困难

As always, statistics can be cut a number of ways. The government emphasised that in the year to March, national CO2 emissions were down a smidge (0.6%), and that since 2005 – the year against which Australia’s climate targets are measured – they have dropped 28.2%. Which doesn’t sound too bad.

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