| Australia's 5% emissions reduction target 'too low and inflexible' to contribute to 2015 climate talks in Paris. The Coalition’s direct action climate plan is flawed in its design and could undermine international negotiations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a Senate committee into the policy has heard.
In a round of submissions to a Senate committee held in Melbourne on Wednesday, business and conservation organisations questioned whether the direct action plan, in its current form, could achieve its aim of a 5% reduction in emissions by 2020, from 2000 levels...............................................Full Article: Source
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