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Barnaby Joyce has warned the Nationals will oppose more ambitious climate targets until the cost for regional communities is revealed.

The Deputy PM is demanding to see more detail about the economic impacts of signing up Australia to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 before backing the target.

That’s despite a major international climate report card warning the planet is poised to be 1.5 degree warmer, compared with pre-industrial levels, by early next decade.

 

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts more frequent and ferocious fires, floods, droughts, and accelerated sea level rise because of human-induced climate change.

Mr Joyce said he understood the emotion, and to some extent the moral argument, around more action.

But the Nationals leader said experts, including CSIRO, needed to be up front about the cost climate action would have.

“You’re making an answer to the equation without actually telling the people the numbers that got there,” he told ABC radio on Wednesday.

“We don’t believe in legislating until we have a clear understanding of exactly where the costs are. Otherwise you just have an open book.”

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has flagged Australia will update its 2030 emissions projections at the UN climate change conference in November.

The government wants to achieve net zero emissions as quickly as possible and preferably by mid-century.

But international pressure is rising ahead of the meeting in Glasgow, with Australia seen as a global laggard on climate action.

 

Mr Morrison is sticking to the government’s “technology not taxes” manta to insist a global effort can counter the catastrophic effect of a warmer climate.

 

Read more:

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/2021/08/11/barnaby-joyce-climate-action/

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Worse fires, longer droughts, and more severe floods — the projections from one of the world's most significant reports on climate change make for scary reading.

The latest IPCC report says that within a decade, global warming could push temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and calls on policymakers to take urgent action on climate change.

The report is making headlines around the world, and the United Nations has referred to the situation as a "code red for humanity".

So what are the report's key findings? What is the IPCC? And why is this particular report such a big deal?

Let's break down what it all means.

What does the IPCC report say about how fast we are warming?

In the 30 years since the first IPCC report was prepared, we've released almost as much greenhouse gas into the atmosphere as humans did throughout our entire history up until 1990.

To be clear, between 1990 and 2021 alone, we released about 41 per cent of all CO2 released since 1750, according to Pep Canadell, head of the Global Carbon Project.

CO2 levels now are higher than they've been for at least 2 million years.

As a result, warming has accelerated, as have the devastating impacts of extreme weather around the world.

All up, the world has warmed by just under 1.1C, the report concludes. That's compared to the "pre-industrial" baseline, which is treated as the average temperature from 1850 to 1900.

That might not sound like much, but consider this: when the world exited the last ice age, all it took was 5C of warming. And that happened over 5,000 years.

During that period, it took about 1,000 years to warm by 1.5C; now, we're on track to warm 1.5C in about 50 years.

Humans have not existed in a climate like this before, and it's getting worse.

If we reach 2.5C of warming, that will be a temperature the Earth has not sustained for at least 3 million years.

 

Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-10/coal-climate-change-covered-in-ipcc-reports-key-questions/100355954

 

 

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