{"id":354582,"date":"2024-12-16T08:23:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T07:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=354582"},"modified":"2024-12-16T08:24:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T07:24:00","slug":"government-abc-accuses-aussie-government-of-exaggerating-climate-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=354582","title":{"rendered":"Government ABC Accuses Aussie Government of Exaggerating Climate Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by<\/strong> Eric Worrall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

h\/t Greg L; Despite claims of progress, genuine emissions cuts have stalled since 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These six charts tell the story of Australia\u2019s (slow) progress on climate change<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By national science and environment reporter Michael Slezak<\/a>
Mon 9 Dec<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen recently declared that Australia was \u201con track\u201d to meet its climate change targets. Shortly after making this announcement, new data challenged that optimism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a reminder of what Australia\u2019s targets are \u2014 we have pledged to bring emissions 43 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, and reach net zero emissions by 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in the past few weeks the federal government has released four reports on Australia\u2019s greenhouse gas pollution that highlight just how far away we are from meeting those targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also pouring cold water on Mr Bowen\u2019s parade was Matt Kean, chair of the government\u2019s independent Climate Change Authority, who said: \u201cEmissions need to fall faster to reach Australia\u2019s 2030 target.\u201d

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only really big cuts so far have happened in the land sector<\/strong> \u2014 by felling fewer trees, and planting more. (In the jargon of carbon reporting, that\u2019s called Land Use, or more formally Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF<\/strong>)).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those numbers are actually unreliable. So much so that the government changes its mind about those emissions every single year.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2024-12-09\/australias-climate-change-policy-problem-in-charts\/104689682<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Annual revisions to the methodology, government sponsored ABC reporters questioning the narrative. Is it possible the government is just making the emissions cuts numbers up to suit their political narrative?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surely not, after all they are a group of green politicians who are committed to climate action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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