Australian senator says proposed climate target will force Australians “down towards the aspirations of the average person in Chad”

In Australia, the federal government declined to change its 2050 greenhouse target despite a report from its top climate adviser calling for a cut of carbon emissions of 90 percent by 2050, up from the national target of 60 percent which the Labor government committed to in the recent national elections.  The Australian Greens said that the 60 percent target was based on an analysis done in 2000, which was overdue for revision.  Opposition senator Barnaby Joyce said that the proposed 90 percent reduction target would “require getting about 10 million Australians to go and live somewhere else, or reducing the average aspirations of the current population down towards the aspirations of the average person in Chad.”

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