Government told its climate change policy isn't good enough

The Climate Change Authority has said Australia's emissions reduction target should be trebled to 15%. This will fall on the deaf ears of the Idiot Abbot's government who not only want to abolish the Authority they also don't believe in climate change at all.

The Authorities point is that the current policy won't even achieve the 5% target and the conditions to do more have been met. Other countries are straining to cut emissions (UK target 80% reduction by 2050).

To reduce carbon emissions it will be necessary to raise the cost of carbon somehow. It is necessary to persuade people to use less goods and services that have high carbon emissions. This will mean people have to pay more and the repeal of the Carbon Tax is a backward move in this sense.

Below is a Guardian Australia article that has some discussion on this.

The Guardian article is here