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ACTING THE ROLE IN CLIMATE TALKS
Months of anticipation followed by a two-day meeting of global leaders pledging varying degrees of support for climate action. Whether this will generate the scale of change needed to combat further global warming remains to be seen. We do know, however, that Australia remains enamoured by fossil fuels despite the just-in-time rhetoric around net zero.
8 SUMMER 2021
MANY WILL RECALL the elation of climate activist Tim Flannery at the 2015 talks in Paris that set an ambition to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. But six years on from the Paris Agreement the world has endured six of the warmest years in modern history, producing more extreme weather events. Worse, the world is on a path to a 16 per cent boost in emissions rather than the necessary 45 per cent reduction by 2030.
