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21 April, 2021, 11:34 am
FILE PHOTO: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison arrives at Haneda airport in Tokyo, Japan, November 17, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato
CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison stopped short of endorsing a 2050 target for net zero greenhouse gas emissions ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden’s climate summit this week.
In a speech on Monday, he said only that Australia, the highest per capita carbon emitter among the world’s richest nations, will achieve net zero “as quickly as possible and preferably by 2050”.
“We don’t make commitments lightly in this country. We prepare our plan to achieve them and then we follow through,” Morrison said at a major business event in Sydney.
The Morrison government has pledged another $565.8 million towards cleaner technologies on the eve of a virtual climate summit at which Australia is expected to come under pressure.
US President Joe Biden is reportedly set to announce a more ambitious target to cut his country s emissions at least in half by 2030, after UK Primer Minister Boris Johnson pledged a 78 per cent cut by 2034.Â
Australia s current target is 26 to 28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, but Prime Minister Scott Morrison has so far refused to put a timeframe on the nation s road to net-zero , which many other countries have committed to by 2050.
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Australia to promise $436.5 million for low emission technology Reuters 4 hrs ago
By Colin Packham
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia will spend A$565.8 million ($436.5 million) to co-fund research and pilot projects in green technologies, Prime Minister Scott Morrison will say on Thursday, to illustrate Canberra s commitment to reducing carbon emissions.
One of the world s largest carbon emitters on a per capita basis, Australia is under mounting pressure to cut greenhouse gas emissions as U.S. President Joe Biden holds a climate summit this week.
While Morrison has resisted global calls to commit to a target of net zero emissions by 2050, citing the risk of damage to Australia s economy, he will on Thursday promise co-investment worth A$565.8 million with partners from Britain, Japan, Korea and Germany.