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| Scott Morrison |
Comment: Dodgy accounting and a huge expenditure of
taxpayers money for a scheme not proven. A typical 'snow job' by the
conservatives not yet fully convinced that climate change exists.
"But a chart released in advance of Monday’s speech makes it clear the
looming abatement exercise will rely significantly on accounting
measures as well as on practical emissions reduction.
According to projections done last December, the government will count a 367 megatonne abatement from carry-over credits
(an accounting system that allows countries to count carbon credits
from exceeding their targets under the soon-to-be-obsolete Kyoto
protocol periods against their Paris commitment for 2030) to help meet
the 2030 target.
It is also factoring in emissions reduction from Turnbull’s pet
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| There is no Planet B for our children |
project, the Snowy 2.0 expansion (which the Morrison government has not yet formally signed off on);
energy efficiency measures; an electric vehicle strategy (that it has
not yet unveiled); the rebadged climate solutions fund; additional hydro
projects and just under 100Mt of abatement from “technology solutions”
(which aren’t specified) and “other sources of abatement” such as
projects under development but not yet contracted."
Read The Guardian article
See also
The Australian article which says,
"Labor climate change spokesman Mark Butler
said last night the Abbott-era direct-action fund, which has been
depleted from an initial $2.5bn to about $226 million, was an
ineffective policy that charged taxpayers for carbon-emissions cuts that
would have happened anyway.
“This is just another example of the government’s inability to deliver real climate policies,” he said.
