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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – Australia’s new government on Monday blamed the previous administration’s lack of action on climate change for an increase in the country’s greenhouse gas emissions last year.
Australia has released 488 million metric tons (538 million US tons) of carbon dioxide and equivalent gases in the past calendar year, 0.8%, or 4.1 million metric tons (4.5 million US tons), as of 2020, according to the government’s national greenhouse gas Inventory update for the December quarter was released on Monday.
Factors that caused the increase include a 4% increase in transport exemptions as pandemic travel restrictions eased and 4.2% more agricultural exemptions as rain ended years of drought over large parts of South East Australia.
Climate change minister Chris Bowen, whose center-left Labor Party came to power in last month’s election, has accused the previous Conservative coalition of relying on COVID-19 and drought to reduce emissions by the end of its nine years in power. reach.
“With the resumption of more normal economic activity, continued recovery from drought and increases in manufacturing and resource sector activities, the previous government limited its record of denial and delay by increasing emissions on the way out,” Bowen said in a statement.
Labor was elected on a pledge to reduce Australia’s emissions by 4330 by 2005 levels below 2005 levels.
The former government had a less ambitious target of a 26% to 28% reduction by the end of the decade.
Some minor parties and independent legislators are calling for stronger action to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).
By the end of last year, Australia had achieved a 21.4% reduction, according to the latest data released on Monday.
Opposition spokesman on climate change Ted O’Brien said Australia’s emissions were now lower than at any time when Labor was last in government from 2007 to 2013.
O’Brien has challenged the new government to deliver cheaper power and to beat its target while delivering economic growth.
Tim Baxter, a senior researcher at the Climate Council think tank, expected Australia’s emissions to rise further this year before the new government’s more effective policies showed results.
“It takes a while for this kind of policy to flow through,” Baxter said. “They may be stronger, but the Labor Party has some measures in place that will begin to bend the curve.”
The council is an independently funded non-profit organization that replaced the Climate Commission, a publicly funded agency that was abolished in 2013 by the previous government.
The council recommends that Australia reduce emissions by 75% by 2030 and reach net zero by 2035. The government’s net zero target is 2050.
News of Australia’s rising greenhouse gas emissions comes as climate activist group Blockade Australia launched a week-long campaign of disruption in Sydney by shutting down Sydney Harbor Tunnel city center during Monday morning’s rush hour.
Traffic had to be diverted across the Sydney Harbor Bridge for about an hour.
Police in riot gear stormed a rally on Monday, removing hundreds of protesters by truck.
New South Wales State Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Dunstan has condemned the actions of some of the 50 to 60 protesters.
“The behavior of this group was nothing less than criminal activity,” Dunstan said.
“Throwing bicycles, throwing rubbish bins, throwing other items in the way of police, in the way of media, in the way of innocent members of the public who just walk by will not be tolerated and can not by the people of New South Wales, ”he added.
Blockade Australia protest organizer Sally-Ann Brown said the disruption was necessary because policymakers were not listening.
“I got the feeling today that the public was not upset, the police were upset,” Brown said.
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