{"id":33124,"date":"2015-08-11T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-11-03T10:32:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T10:32:24","slug":"8124-australia-s-weak-carbon-target-is-increasingly-out-of-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/8124-australia-s-weak-carbon-target-is-increasingly-out-of-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s weak carbon target is increasingly out of step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia, one of the world&rsquo;s biggest per capita emitters of greenhouse gases and a country that is particularly vulnerable to climate change, has finally released its 2030 carbon reduction target &ndash;&nbsp;but&nbsp;to generally scathing reviews.<\/p>\n<p>As expected, the right-leaning government has outlined what many consider a weak effort to reduce the country&rsquo;s dependence on fossil fuels.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Tuesday that the country will cut emissions by 26-28% compared with 2005 levels by 2030, and the government contends that its reductions are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.environment.gov.au\/climate-change\/publications\/factsheet-australias-2030-climate-change-target\">greatest per capita<\/a> among its major economic rivals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cd.live\/uploads\/content_image\/content_image\/587\/australia_indc-01-v7.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cd.live\/uploads\/content_image\/content_image\/587\/australia_indc-01-v7.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"412\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But by choosing 2005 as a base year &ndash; when, by historical standards, emissions were particularly high &ndash; the country&rsquo;s effort is &ldquo;pathetically weak<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-08-11\/tony-abbott-brushes-off-criticism-of-climate-targets\/6688214\">&rdquo;, say opposition politicians<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile green groups said the cut was nowhere near the number needed to put Australia on a shared path to reducing emissions fast enough to avoid runaway climate change.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to analysis by Australia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climateinstitute.org.au\/articles\/media-releases\/government-climate-targets-fail-key-tests.html\">Climate Institute<\/a>, the figures released today will cut Australia&#8217;s emissions 20% from 1990 levels by 2030. While according to the same measure, US reductions are to be 32%. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The target is the crux of Australia&rsquo;s national climate plan, otherwise known as an <a href=\"https:\/\/edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu\/overview.php?v=CO2ts_pc1990-2013&amp;sort=asc1\">intended nationally determined contribution<\/a> (INDC), which all countries have to submit to UN climate talks.<\/p>\n<p>Since the previous government&rsquo;s carbon tax plan was dismantled in 2013, the centrepiece of Australia&rsquo;s climate policy has been the <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/without-a-safeguard-australia-will-burn-through-our-emissions-target-41762\">Direct Action Plan<\/a>, which provides incentives for the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But critics say the measures are <a href=\"https:\/\/independentaustralia.net\/environment\/environment-display\/abbotts-first-auctions-prove-direct-action-more-slogan-than-policy,7597\">totally inadequate<\/a> to shift away from coal and curb greenhouse gases (GHGs) from sectors such as transport.<\/p>\n<div><b>Why Australia matters<\/b><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Australia&rsquo;s climate policy is closely watched for several reasons. The country&rsquo;s huge fossil fuel and metals industries, which have become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/7346-China-s-war-on-pollution-could-leave-Australian-coal-out-in-the-cold\">dangerously dependent<\/a> on exports to China, contribute to the country&#8217;s ranking as <a href=\"https:\/\/edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu\/overview.php?v=CO2ts_pc1990-2013&amp;sort=asc1\">one of&nbsp;the world&#8217;s biggest per capita emitters of CO2<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>But China&rsquo;s action against air pollution, and its aim to reduce coal&rsquo;s share of the energy mix, risks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/business\/mining-and-resources\/with-coal-going-begging-its-time-to-stop-digging-20150731-gioil7.html\">stranding assets<\/a> in the coal industry.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Meanwhile, as a <a href=\"https:\/\/ieefa.org\/indias-energy-transformation-suggests-the-end-of-coal-imports-soon\/\">new study<\/a> from Institute of Energy Economics and Financial Analysis points out, India&rsquo;s aim to be self-sufficient in coal, and use more solar, could mean that Aussie mining companies won&rsquo;t have much of an export market left. This underlines the folly of an aggressive growth policy undertaken in the past decade, it adds.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><b>Climate vulnerability <\/b><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>And Australia isn&rsquo;t just a major contributor to climate change, it is likely to suffer disproportionately from the impact of a warmer world, too. The country&rsquo;s vast subcontinental land mass is mainly arid, and its export-oriented agriculture industry, centred around the Murray Basin, relies on dwindling supplies of water.<\/p>\n<p>Record-breaking heatwaves in 2013 forced Australian weather forecasters had to add a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/damian-carrington-blog\/2013\/jan\/08\/australia-bush-fires-heatwave-temperature-scale\">new colour on weather maps<\/a>, and the suburbs of Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra are regularly consumed by deadly and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2014\/oct\/21\/bushfire-season-will-be-more-severe-as-a-result-of-climate-change\">highly unpredictable bush fires<\/a>.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The country&rsquo;s main coastal cities, where the vast majority of Australians live, are particularly at <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/are-you-ready-for-a-four-degree-world-2452\">risk from rising sea levels<\/a>, while the country&rsquo;s tough immigration policy would likely block migrants fleeing rising sea level in Pacific Island states.<\/p>\n<p>And for the last decade, climate policy has been centre stage in Australian politics and even contributed to the ousting of Labour prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition to the scientific consensus that climate change is manmade, and protection of the fossil fuel lobby, is a celebrated cause in right-wing circles. Tony Abbott famously described climate science as &ldquo;crap&rdquo;, and has openly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/comment\/tony-abbott-at-odds-with-the-world-on-renewable-energy-and-climate-change-20150612-ghm8ql.html\">mocked<\/a> the use of renewable energy.<\/p>\n<div><b>Increasingly isolated<\/b><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>But internationally, Abbott has become increasingly isolated as the US &ndash; another resource-rich economy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/8070-Challenged-by-drought-fire-earthquake-and-flood-California-departs-on-new-path\">vulnerable<\/a> to droughts and flooding of major cities &ndash; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/blog\/7489-Reaction-US-China-climate-pledge\/en\">jointly announced<\/a> GHG cuts with China last year.<\/p>\n<p>Although the US (26-28% by 2025 from a 2005 baseline) and EU (40% by 2030 from a 1990 baseline) targets have been criticised in some quarters as not being deep enough, they are viewed more positively than Australia&rsquo;s, which places its cuts five years later than what the US has promised.<\/p>\n<p>The Abbott government&rsquo;s target is even regarded as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/federal-politics\/political-opinion\/abbott-governments-political-climate-target-fails-three-key-tests-20150811-giwcm6.html\">barely more impressive<\/a> than the much-derided figure recently proposed by Japan. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>President Barack Obama, who outlined the country&rsquo;s highly divisive <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2015\/08\/04\/3685095\/climate-plan-finalized-now-what\/\">Clean Power Plan<\/a> last week, has confronted the fossil fuel lobby and its political backers in a way that would be unthinkable to Abbott, who takes a binary view on most major issues and is a proud supporter of the resources industry.<\/p>\n<div><b>Heavy costs<\/b><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The Aussie PM, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-pacific-10645410\">a devout Catholic<\/a> who in his younger years briefly trained for the priesthood, is also majorly out of step with the views of the Papacy following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/environment\/climate-change\/pope-blasts-global-warming-deniers-20150616-ghp52z.html\">Pope Benedict&rsquo;s encyclical<\/a> in May.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>That document outlined the moral case to world leaders for strong action on climate change and shift from fossil fuels to low carbon alternatives, but to Abbott, coal is king. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By remaining in hock to the fossil fuel industry, sun-swathed Australia is also failing to fully capitalise on the global renewables boom, say many observers.<\/p>\n<p>What&rsquo;s more, Australia&rsquo;s unambitious targets set a poor example to other resource-rich states at upcoming UN climate talks, and a weak deal would put the country&rsquo;s economic future at risk, says the Australian think-tank the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/what-you-need-to-know-about-today-s-emission-reduction-targets-announcement\">Climate Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It says that a predicted increase in droughts&nbsp;could cost 7.3&nbsp;billion Australian dollars (US$5.34 billion) annually, reducing GDP by 1% per year.<\/p>\n<div><b>General election<\/b><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>The best hopes for greater climate ambition from Australia probably rest with the result of next year&rsquo;s general election, where the Labor Party is hoping to win back power from the Liberals as an economic downturn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/national-affairs\/polling\">eats into the government&rsquo;s popularity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But Labor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/federal-politics\/political-news\/labor-denies-carbon-tax-is-coming-back-20150714-gicfjn.html\">is riven by internal tensions<\/a> on what kinds of measures should be used to curb fossil fuels, given the huge numbers of unionised jobs in the resources industry.<\/p>\n<p>The centre-left party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2015\/aug\/09\/australians-fear-coalition-is-not-taking-climate-change-seriously-poll-shows\">has not yet revealed<\/a> the post-2020 target it would favour, but it did say that the government&rsquo;s target was not high enough.<\/p>\n<p>It may take many months to emerge whether that&rsquo;s anywhere near the 50% cut from 2005 levels that some think-tanks claim is necessary.<\/p>\n<p>One thing is for sure though, as the risk of sea level rise increases, Australia&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2015\/jul\/24\/marshall-islands-urge-australia-to-follow-its-ambitious-climate-goals\">small island neighbours<\/a> in the South Pacific will be imploring tougher action in Paris. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&rsquo;s lack of ambition sets a poor example at 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