Former UN climate chief urges Australia to set ‘prosperity’ target of cutting emissions by 75% by 2035 | Climate crisis

A former UN Climate Chief called on the Australian government to set a greenhouse gas emissions of at least 75% by 2035 and supported calls that it would be better than a lower target than more than 350 business groups.

The intervention of Christiana Figueres, the architect of the 2015 Paris Agreement, the Secretary General of the UN Climate Change Framework Agreement, comes before the discussions about Australia’s commitment to be announced next month.

The cabinet has not yet received official advice from the climate change authority headed by the former NSW Liberal Treasurer Matt Kean. In late September of Anthony Albania, a decision on the target is expected before joining the UN General Assembly in New York.

A counseling certificate based on the first assessment of scientific, economic, technological and social evidence by authority last year proposed that a 2035 target of 65% to 75% of its 2005 levels can be obtained by “governments, work, investors and households”. Since then, the government has been lobbying about which goal it should be set.

Figueres, 75% or more reduction target will be “not a burden,” instead of “Australia’s ticket to the welfare of the future,” he said. He argued that the ambitious target would increase the chances of hosting a large UN Climate Summit in Adelaide in November 2026, Australia.

Australia continues to compete with Türkiye for the right to host the COP31 Summit, and it is unclear when it will be solved under the UN’s consensus process.

“The new global economy is strengthened by clean energy and green industry, Fig said Figueres. In the heart of Australia, unrivaled sun and wind, critical minerals and talented labor can be ready to lead.

“Prime Minister Albanian now Pacific and the world is ready to lead the world that Australia is ready to lead COP31 and beyond.”

Last week, a report assigned by the business for a 75% group supported by Future Group, Fortescu, Atlassian, Canva, IKEA and Unilever suggested that a 75% reduction target could lead to 370 billion dollars bigger than 2035 compared to existing projections. He said that the economic benefits of the more ambitious target would be much larger than a 65% target.

The research suggests that Australia should set a reduction target of approximately 81%between 76%to 89%in order to align the goal of limiting global heating since the foreground.

Climate Analysis, Chairman of the Executive Committee and Senior Scientist Bill Hare, ACCEPLES Figueres and other countries with the government’s Pacific Island countries and would watch where Australia went down because they think they should host COP31.

Hare said that more than one study found that Australia can “enter 75% in terms of technically and economically possible”. Authorized, significant cost-effective emission cuts in various fields is possible and the basic obstacles to the action are political.

Some organizations lobbying the government have focused on a consultation view by the International Court of Justice, which found that countries have the obligation to take consistent measures by limiting global heating to 1.5C. They claimed that Australia means that it should be determined by 2035 to reach a net zero emissions – a target that many experts say that it would not be possible to encounter as logistics.

Australian National University Climate and Energy Policy Center Director Frank Jotzo and the government advisor about the climate policy, even a goal of reduction in the 60s will be ambitious, he said. He said the government should be ambitious, but the policies of directing change are more important than the number.

Jotzo said Australia’s emission discounts have been slow to date, and reaching a 65% reduction goal will require that pollution levels be reduced in ten years. He said that this is possible, but that emissions will require significant policies in areas with rising or sides – especially industry, transportation and agriculture – and faster decreases than in electricity.

“Regardless of the adoption of the target, there must be a way of application and a chance to be perceived as much as possible,” he said.

Jotzo supported the government’s proposal that the government could set a target range rather than a single number by Chris Bowen, Minister of Climate Change.