Global warming: the Australian Prime Minister defends a record far from exemplary
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on April 27, 2021 in Sydney.
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The day after the publication of the IPCC report, the Australian government, whose economy remains very largely driven by the exploitation of fossil fuels, took note and defended its record, however far from exemplary.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has also expressed his opposition to a carbon tax, seeing instead in technological advances the solution to the problem posed by climate change.
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With our correspondent in Sydney,
Grégory Plesse
Forest fires as devastating as in early 2020, drought, flooding and sandstorms could become common weather events in Australia, for which the outlook outlined in
the IPCC report is particularly worrying.
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Australia is part of the solution
"
This morning, Scott Morrison, the Prime Minister at the head of a country which emits per capita three times more greenhouse gases than the average of the G20 countries, nevertheless defended the record of his government.
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Australia is part of the solution, Australia is taking its part in this solution and Australia will continue to do more because we understand what this means for our own country,
" he said.
Scott Morrison, however, refuses for the moment to commit his country to carbon neutrality by 2050. And even if he repeats that Australia is keeping and even exceeding the commitments made within the framework of
the COP21
, the reports from his own government say otherwise.
This Tuesday, he also recalled his frontal opposition to the introduction of a carbon tax.
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To solve this problem, our approach is technology, not taxes…
”, he insisted.
Hydrogen ... and natural gas
It refers to carbon capture techniques or to the development of hydrogen.
But at the same time, it has also initiated a stimulus program using natural gas, a hydrocarbon that is anything but renewable.
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