Australia’s environment minister responds to Climate Change Authority’s call, saying it would be ‘the largest reduction in emissions intensity in the world’
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2025 would be an “onerous” task, Australia’s environment minister has said.
On Tuesday the Climate Change Authority (CCA) recommended the cut and said Australia should also increase its commitment to cut 2000-level emissions by 2020 from 5% to 19% if it wanted to be taken seriously at the Paris climate change talks in December.
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