UN Urges Climate Laggard Australia to Set Emissions Target
- Australia increasingly isolated in not adopting net zero goal
- Decarbonization a huge opportunity for Australia, Hart says
A coal-fired power station in the Latrobe Valley, Australia.
Photographer: Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg
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Australia should join its Group of 20 counterparts in committing to a net zero emissions target “as a matter of urgency,” the United Nations’ chief climate adviser will tell a conference in Canberra on Monday.
“If G20 countries, including Australia, choose business-as-usual, climate change will soon send Australia’s high living standards up in flames,” Selwin Hart, the UN’s special adviser to the secretary general on climate action, said in prepared remarks. Failure to act would see Australia suffer more frequent and severe climate events such as droughts, heatwaves, fires and floods.