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Stronger emissions targets widely supported by businesses

Australian business leaders are joining the call for net-zero by 2050. A survey by the Carbon Market Institute of over 400 Australians, including c-suite executives and senior managers, has found t ....

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We need net zero by 2035: scientists


 
Australia must slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 75 per cent by the end of the decade and get to net zero by 2035 to hedge against the accelerating impacts of climate change.
Those startling claims - described by one MP yesterday as overreaching - are contained in a new Climate Council report, Aim High, Go Fast: Why Emissions Need To Plummet This Decade.
Canberra has pledged to cut emissions by 26-28 per cent by the end of this decade, so a 75 per cent cut would represent almost a tripling of current targets.
The Climate Council report suggests every fraction of a degree in global warming could make massive differences in how we live. In a world that is 1.5 degrees warmer, for example, the Arctic is predicted to experience an ice-free summer once every 100 years; in a globe that is 2 degrees hotter, ice-free Arctic summers are expected once every 10 years. ....

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