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Australia’s climate politics on a high wire

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageAAP/Lukas Coch

While the politicisation of climate change has transformed climate reporting into something of a circus, the Coalition’s announcement of a 26% emissions reduction target on 2005 levels for Australia by 2030 has surely placed its climate policy on a dangerous high wire.

The high wire is not that the target has been set too high....

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Australia's 2030 climate target puts us in the race, but at the back

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imageEnvironment minister Greg Hunt and Prime Minister Tony Abbott announce Australia's 2030 climate target. AAP Image/Lukas Coch

Australia’s new emissions target is not “squarely in the middle of comparable economies" as the PM claimed. Towards the bottom of the pack of comparable countries, on key indicators. But Australia is coming to the...

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