PM Scott Morrison, emissions reduction minister say country beat its emission-reduction targets for 2020
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison arrives alongside Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg to a press conference at Parliament House on January 6, 2020 in Canberra, Australia.Australia’s government is sticking firmly to a position that there is no direct link between climate change and the country’s devastating bushfires, despite public anger, the anguish of victims and warnings from scientists.
Stepping up efforts to cut emissions would harm the economy, the government argues, especially if it hurt Australia’s exports of coal and gas. The country last year overtook Qatar as the world’s top exporter of liquefied natural gas. Taylor’s came in response to criticism Australia faced at the United Nations climate summit in Madrid for blocking ambitious action to cut carbon emissions.Environmental groups say Australia will only meet its emissions targets by including old carbon credits the government wants to count from the 1992 Kyoto Protocol.“One of the key drivers of fire intensity, fire spread rates and fire area is temperature.
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