Mark Butler MP.
Shadow Minister for Environment
Climate Change and Water
Date: 21 November 2014
Australia
once more looks like an international embarrassment on the global stage
under Tony Abbott as we are listed among the top four nations who won’t
meet their emissions reduction targets.
The United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) fifth Emissions Gap Report
has identified Australia in the top four countries who won’t meet their
international commitments on tackling climate change since Tony
Abbott’s globally embarrassing head-in-the-sand stance.
The
United Nations report, written after the release of Tony Abbott’s
Direct Action slush fund – which will use billions of taxpayer dollars
to pay polluters to pollute, increase cost of living and increase power
bills – further confirms that Australia was on target to reduce its
emissions until Tony Abbott started winding back the clock on climate
change.
Tony Abbott is taking Australia backwards, while the rest of the world moves forward.
The
United Nations report demonstrates that under the carbon price
mechanism, Australia’s carbon pollution reductions reduced by seven per
cent – for the first time in history.
World
leaders, including some of Australia’s largest trading partners, have
pledged to increase their emissions reduction targets. Tony Abbott would
rather pay polluters to pollute and keep his head in the sand.Just this week he claimed in front of world leaders that “We do deliver on our reductions targets, unlike some other countries” while this report from UNEP has found otherwise.
Tony Abbott is an international embarrassment when it comes to climate change.
Tony Abbott is the only person who is yet to realise Australia is missing out while the rest of the world looks towards clean energy futures.
All of the experts, economists and climate scientists, agree that Tony Abbott’s so-called Direct Action plan won’t work.
It won’t lower carbon pollution, but it will cost households billions of dollars.
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