Chief UK Climate Advisor Shreds Australia's Proposal: "No Indication" They Can Deliver

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The UK government’s climate change adviser has launched a scathing attack on Australia’s net zero commitment on the eve of critical talks in Glasgow.

Lord Deben, the Climate Change Committee chair, told the BBC on Saturday there was “no indication” that the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, had a plan to deliver on the commitment to net zero that was “squeezed out of him”. “It’s very sad that a great country like Australia should change our climate,” he said. “Because that’s what happens. If you allow people to keep on doing this, it’s our climate as well as theirs that’s changed.”

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Lord Deben, who was a minister in Margaret Thatcher’s conservative government and environment minister under her successor John Major, said most world leaders were beginning to recognise how serious the threat of climate change is. “(But) not all leaders are like that. I’m afraid that if you look at Scott Morrison from Australia, we’ve squeezed out of him a commitment to net zero in 2050 but there’s no indication at the moment that he’s got a proper program for that,” he said.

Lord Deben said he would “love to see Australia rejoin the pack”, and that climate change was an existential threat. “If we don’t do it then we really do risk the destruction of everything we’ve ever known,” he said.

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/30/uks-top-climate-adviser-launches-scathing-attack-on-australia-on-eve-of-cop26

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1. China is the biggest problem

Until you get them serious. All the other countries are basically putting a bandaid on the huge problem.