Today Scott Morrison had the opportunity to commit to the climate action Australians have been crying out for.
Instead he gave up on a safe future for Australians and committed to his inadequate policies which mean 3-degrees of global warming.
Scott Morrison was again loose with the truth, repeating that his Government is “meeting and beating their climate targets.”
The Government’s own official emissions data only last month confirmed Australia will not meet our Kyoto commitment to cut emissions by 5 per cent. In fact, our emissions reduction by 2020 will amount to little more than a rounding error of 0.3 per cent.
Scott Morrison also falsely claimed per capita emissions will fall by half over the next 10 years.
Australians have seen through the course of this summer the damage that climate change is causing. Scott Morrison’s speech today confirms he has no plan to keep Australians safe from those impacts now or into the future.