Australia's response to the climate crisis was straightforward. There wasn't one. Morrison mustered a bit of half-hearted rhetoric and re-heated climate funding...
Delivering the national statement to the conference on Saturday, Bowen argued Australia had made more progress on climate in the past 12 months than in nearly a decade under the rightwing Coalition. He listed successes: an underwriting policy to help reach a target of 82% renewable electricity by 2030; a limit on total pollution from the country's biggest 215 industrial sites; offering residency to climate refugees from the tiny, low-lying Pacific island nation of Tuvalu; projections suggesting the 2030 emissions target a 43% cut compared with 2005 is within reach.
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