Australia has been named the worst-performing industrial country IN THE WORLD on climate change in a REPORT released at international negotiations in Peru. The climate change performance index RANKED Denmark as the best-performing country in the world, followed by Sweden and Britain. Among the world’s top 10 emitters, Germany was ranked the highest at 22. Australia was second bottom overall, above Saudi Arabia – which was not classified as industrial. The report states: “The new conservative Australian government has apparently made good on last year’s announcement and reversed the climate policies previously in effect. As a result, THE COUNTRY lost a further 21 positions in the policy evaluation compared to last year, thus replacing Canada as the worst-performing industrial country.” With Direct Action looking unlikely to achieve the 5% target what will the Abbott government do when the Lima negotiations bring back higher targets and stronger clean energy targets. I am not expecting much change or much change in their rhetoric on this topic.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 04:55:44 +0000
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