Sydney: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, under pressure to adopt the target of 2050 net carbon emissions, which was said in an interview published Monday that he might not join the UN climate summit this year at Glasgow.
The largest coal exporter in the world and still depends on fossil fuels for most of its electricity, Australia has not made a strong commitment to reducing its own greenhouse gas.
Morrison has vowed to mine and export fossil fuels as long as there are buyers.
Asked about attending the global climate crisis conference in November, Morrison told the Western Australian newspaper: “We have not made a final decision.” “I mean, it is another trip abroad and I have lasted a few years and spend a lot of time in quarantine,” he said.
“I have to focus on things here and with Covid.
Australia will open around that time.
There will be many problems to be managed and I have to manage competing demands.” The 12-day meeting in Scotland, the biggest climate conference since landmark talks in Paris in 2015, was seen as an important step in setting the target of global emissions to slow down global warming.
The Morrison government has suggested it will achieve clean-zero carbon emissions “as soon as possible”, and preferably in 2050, but have not made a commitment to do so.
The Australian Prime Minister told the newspaper that he tried to bring the government and the state together with future commitments to provide certainty for the next 20-30 years.
He has negotiated hard at setting a net-zero target in the government of conservative coalition, the alliance of his own liberal party and citizens, who have many their support in the rural and mining community.
Climate scientists warn extreme weather and fierce fires will be increasingly common because of human-made global warming.
Environmental lovers argue about the actions of climate change can cost Australia’s economic costs billions of dollars because the country suffers from forest fires that are more intense, storm and flooding.
Asked whether he would be committed to a certain climate target in a separate interview with the Australian newspaper, the Prime Minister answered: “I can assure you that we will have a plan.” Morrison told the newspaper that Australia’s position as a major energy exporter in the Asia-Pacific region would change and it was important to make the transition towards a low-emission economy.
However, the prime minister added that the change must be managed so that “things remain running, everything remains open, things continue to be excavated from the ground for some considerable time, you must continue to make things, you have to keep eating something And the world needs food “.