Australia needs 'herculean' efforts to meet emissions targets

Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
"Professor Pielke, of the university's Centre for Science and Technology Policy Research, says Australia would have to become as carbon efficient by 2016 as Japan was in 2006 to meet the 25 per cent targets. It would have to reach this aim by 2018 for a 15 per cent reduction target or by 2020 to achieve a 5 per cent reduction target."To think that Australia could achieve Japanese levels of decarbonisation within the next decade strains credulity,'' the paper says.Professor Pielke has examined climate change legislation in several nations, including Japan and Britain. His critique of the Australian legislation uses the same methodology as his analysis of Britain's Climate Act, published in the Institute of Physics journal Environmental Research Letters last year."!

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So Australia doesn't really intend to decarbonize its economy? Wow. (Roger Pielke)