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Climate Council will create clean jobs and investment opportunities in the state, but a higher target would unlock more benefits and better protect Victorians from worsening climate impacts, the Climate Council says. Today, the Victorian Government announced an emission reduction target of 28-33% by 2025, and 45-50% for 2030 – as well as a plan for how to get there. Previously, the state had a 15-20% emission reduction target for 2020, which was met. Climate Council spokesman Professor Will Steffen said the new Victorian climate target was progress, particularly in the wake of federal gov...

It is virtually impossible to limit warming to 1.5°C, the report said, but that simply means more work has to be done to stop 2°C warming (since the Industrial Revolution). It details an option whereby significant warming — where temperatures rise above 1.5°C — is followed by a “drawdown” where carbon dioxide (CO 2) is sucked out of the atmosphere. These include a significant rise in forest cover, land restoration and soil carbon sequestration. Another method is bio-energy and carbon capture and storage. However, importantly, it also said that these technologies cannot currently be...

Richard Dannatt Published: 9:53 AM April 25, 2021    General Lord Richard Dannatt takes the salute as Downham Market Royal British Legion held a parade through the town to mark its 90th anniversary celebration in 2012 - Credit: Matthew Usher Born in Essex, General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL is a retired  senior British Army officer and member of the House of Lords. He was chief of the general staff between 2006-2009.  He lives just outside of Norwich with his wife Pippa, The Lady Dannatt What is your connection to East Anglia? I was born and brought up in Essex, and met my wife, Pipp...

  Australia must slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 75 per cent by the end of the decade and get to net zero by 2035 to hedge against the accelerating impacts of climate change. Those startling claims - described by one MP yesterday as "overreaching" - are contained in a new Climate Council report, Aim High, Go Fast: Why Emissions Need To Plummet This Decade. Canberra has pledged to cut emissions by 26-28 per cent by the end of this decade, so a 75 per cent cut would represent almost a tripling of current targets. The Climate Council report suggests every fraction of a degree in glob...

Failure is not an option. Australia must radically scale up its climate targets now WillSteffenfortheConversation To contribute fairly to keeping warming well below 2C, we have to cut emissions by 75% this decade – a daunting but achievable task ‘The consequences of breaching 1.5C will be stark. Heatwaves, droughts, bushfires and intense rain events will become more severe. Sea levels will rise, species will become extinct and crop yields will fall.’ Photograph: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images ‘The consequences of breaching 1.5C will be stark. Heatwaves, droughts, bushfires and intense r...