Article 5DKF3 Australia needs to stop thinking that setting a target of zero emissions by 2050 is good enough | Greg Jericho

Australia needs to stop thinking that setting a target of zero emissions by 2050 is good enough | Greg Jericho

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Greg Jericho
from Environment | The Guardian on (#5DKF3)

Political parties have to tell us what they are doing to keep within our carbon budget

We need to change how we talk about climate change policy. No longer can we hand out pass marks for irrelevant targets that sound good but actually fail to prevent climate change.

Back in 2018, the IPCC announced that we had 12 years to limit temperatures to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

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