Australia announces target emissions cuts
Coming out of the Poznan Conference, Australian Climate Change Minister Penny Wong has announced that her country will aim to reduce carbon emissions by 5% to 15% from 2000 levels by 2020. This would be a move forward for that country’s goal of reducing emissions by 60% by 2050.
However, Australia’s planned cuts are relatively smaller in comparison to the EU, which targets cuts of 20% below 1990 levels by 2020, as well as California which aims to hit 1990 levels by 2020, and Obama’s proposal, which aims for the same as California.
However, unlike the U.S., Australia has (albeit belatedly) ratified the Kyoto Protocol, which was done the first day Prime Minister Kevin Rudd took office last November.
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