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 Morrison doesn't lead he capitulates

Hours after the Queen made it clear she was unamused by the number of world leaders yet to confirm their attendance at the Glasgow COP26 climate talks, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced he would attend.

On the eve of COP26, the guest list remains a mystery

  

Global Crisis of the Pandemic and Climate Change is bringing systemic inequality into relief 

 

The Reserve Bank of Australia has declared that the Government cannot hide from a net zero future today as state and territory governments around the country make plans without Federal guidance. In response, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has told journalists that he has accepted the RBA’s challenge and looks forward to showing the country he can and will hide from it. “Right now, my cabinet is looking for a dead cat,” he said.

Source: “Challenge Accepted!” Says PM After Reserve Bank Says He Cannot Hide From A Net Zero Future — The Betoota Advocate

 

 

The large-scale satirical artwork is named ‘The Australian Government’ 

Banksy Reveals Latest Installation

Many people fear carbon credits will be used to avoid reductions in the production of fossil fuels. And when you hear Energy Minister Angus Taylor assuring people in the coal, oil and gas industries that they “have a great future”, it makes you think such fears are warranted.

 Your Government at work

Research by the Australia Institute and the Australian Conservation Foundation has found there was a massive surge in applications to clear native forest before the NSW government imposed limits on land clearing.

Since little of this approved clearing has actually happened, the administrators of the federal Emissions Reduction Fund have counted the difference as “avoided deforestation”, even though it’s quite implausible that anything like that much land could have been cleared in the time available.

Encouraging farmers to remove carbon from the atmosphere is a good idea. But there’s great scope for the unscrupulous to turn it into a fraud and another National Party rort.

COP26 Glasgow summit: How Australia’s ‘net’ in net zero emissions offers a huge opportunity to cheat

Exclusive: The Australian Industry Group’s Innes Willox says the case for strong climate action has strengthened rapidly and the cost has turned out to be lower than expected

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• Innes Willox: ‘Both bad climate policy and no policy will see Australia lose jobs and investment overseas’
• Australian Politics podcast: Australia’s climate indecision continues as Scott Morrison heads to Glasgow

 “advanced economy peers” – South Korea, Canada, Japan, the US, the EU and the UK – had set goals to cut emissions between 40% and 68% below their national peaks by 2030, and Australia should do similar. The Morrison government’s existing 2030 target, set six years ago by the then prime minister Tony Abbott, is a 26-28% cut below 2005 levels.

Even those figures were cooked by Angus Taylor to fictionalize the LNP's current stance 

“It would be easy for Australia to more than halve emissions by 2030 simply by accelerating renewable energy, providing greater national incentives for electric vehicles and reducing land clearance rates,” Hare said.

“Yet the federal government’s present encouragement of new fossil fuel projects, like coalmines and massive gas developments, would make this impossible.”

Australia’s biggest industry group calls on Morrison government to halve emissions by 2030