Comedy Gold! Climate Institute Urges Australia To Cut GHG Output 40% By 2025 - Guardian

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Australia needs to tell the world how it will calculate its medium-term greenhouse target for release early next year and should be looking at a 40% reduction by 2025, the Climate Institute think tank says.

As revealed by Guardian Australia, US and European Union negotiators have also been unsuccessfully lobbying Australia to back a pledge by G20 leaders that their post-2020 greenhouse emission reduction targets will be unveiled early, to improve the chances of a deal at the United Nations meeting in Paris on global greenhouse reductions after 2020.

But Australia has so far said only that it would “consider its post-2020 target as part of the review … in 2015 on Australia’s international targets and settings”, taking into account what trading partners promise, and has been resisting discussion of climate change at the G20 on the grounds that the meeting should focus on its central economic agenda.

The Climate Institute used several methods to calculate a country’s “fair share” of emission reductions to try to contain global warming to 2 degrees Celsius. It found Australia will need to promise to reduce net emissions by at least 40% of 2000 levels by 2025 and 65% to 75% by 2035.

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http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/09/australia-told-it-should-aim-for-40-cut-in-greenhouse-gases-by-2025

[yeoman6987]

1. Is that even possible to do?

It seems very insurmountable. Last thing we want is Austrailia to find it to overwhelming and decide it is to hard and just say forget it. Someone smarter then me most likely knows the odds more than myself. Well smarter them me includes everyone one of you.

[BillZBubb]

2. I fail to see the comedy.

[RiverLover]

3. Bleak Dark Comedy, maybe

[hatrack]

4. Precisely! You may wish to begin cultivating a taste for it in the very near future . . . .

. . . assuming it's something you've not already done.