Tim Read on the 20% claim

Following from Tim Read, state MP for Brunswick, a Green, directly in response to Frydenberg's 20% emissions reduction claim.

This sounds like the accounting trick using improvements in Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF – mostly restricting land clearing) to hide minimal change or worsening in other sectors such as electricity and transport.

Here’s one article: https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2020/jun/02/yes-australias-emissions-are-falling-but-its-a-hollow-boast

This article has a helpful graph: https://www.theguardian.com/business/commentisfree/2021/sep/05/australias-carbon-emissions-have-barely-fallen-and-a-massive-task-lies-ahead

Scott Morrison’s stance at the Glasgow COP meeting was attacked from so many quarters that it won’t be hard to find well-argued critiques, but I’d start with the Climate Council (formerly the Climate Commission, until Tony Abbott sacked them).

https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/federal-governments-cop26-report-card/ https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/de-bunking-prime-minister-scott-morrisons-cop26-speech/

Here’s another article that may be of interest. https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/scott-morrison-said-australia%E2%80%99s-emissions-have-dropped-by-20-pe/13495118

If you follow just a few climate scientists and activists on Twitter, there’s no shortage of commentary on this. In my view the Liberals aren’t seriously trying to convince anyone who’s paying attention and cares about the climate, they’re just trying to placate people who support them for other reasons, that they’ve got the climate issue “covered”.