For the UN climate summit in November in Glasgow to succeed it “must be the COP that consigns coal power to history,” Britain’s climate envoy Alok Sharma has repeatedly stressed.
After all, a binding agreement on phasing out coal by 2030 is the main goal of both the Biden administration and the UK government.
Today’s developments down under, however, demonstrate once again that their COP26 agenda is almost certain to fail as Australia has become the latest nation to reject the demands for an end to coal.
Via the AFP
Australia vowed Thursday to keep mining coal for export and said global demand was rising, rejecting a study that warned nearly all its reserves must stay in the ground to address the climate crisis.
Researchers warned in a study published in the journal Nature this week that 89 percent of global coal reserves — and 95 percent of Australia’s share — must be left untouched.
Such restraint, they said, would still only offer a 50 percent chance of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels — the current global goal.
But Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Thursday Australia’s energy exports were needed to power developing countries, and predicted technology would enable them to be burned “in a much more climate-friendly way” in the future.
“We will keep mining the resources that we’re able to sell on the world market,” Morrison told a news conference when asked if he would put an “expiration date” on the coal mining industry.
“We obviously anticipate that over time world demand for these things may change.”
Under existing agreements, developing countries are able to use Australian resources “well into the future”, Morrison said.
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The fires were only in the South, because it followed slavishly the demnads of the Greens and their lap dogs, Labor
Now Liberals have joined the lap dog clan, and the whole poitical scenne has moved Left. That is why the we have Martial Law, but only in the capital cities where the Left thrives. Vothe United Australia Party and see some changes for the old time good – election is coming, and the chance to wind back to a
true blue Australia
Last year Australia was suffering from all those Fires now their under Martial Law The Land Down Under is the victims of Liberalism
Good. Maybe Morrison actually does have a spine and will stand up for Australia’s interests (and its customers).
Morrison deserves to hang for crimes against humanity…then we can get back to this debate.
Which for me is no longer a debate, earths dramatic climate changes are all predicated and based off of our magnetic field and magnetism in general whether that be from the sun or some other as yet unknown source.
Nah ! You,ve got it wrong. The problem was caused by Goff Whitlam. Think about it