Sentence examples for greenhouse target from inspiring English sources

What long-term greenhouse target do we want to embrace?

Tony Abbott's climate "strategy" – repeated sagely in many columns since Tuesday – is to "neutralise" the "environmental" argument with his new 26% greenhouse target and then attack Labor's policy on economic grounds.

Bill Shorten has suggested he will adopt a far tougher greenhouse target – a 45% cut in emissions by 2030 – compared with the Coalition's promised cut of 26%to28%8%.

But it is worth remembering that Hunt promised the safeguard mechanism would cut industrial emissions by 200m tonnes between 2020 and 2030 to help meet the Paris greenhouse target.

The California report has much more detail on the scope of the challenge and the need for a fundamental strategic review if this greenhouse target (or any similar target elsewhere) is to be taken seriously.

Shorten has pledged to reintroduce an emissions trading scheme and has said Labor would back a tougher greenhouse target, but he has shied away from endorsing the idea that coal – Australia's second-largest export earner – will have to be phased out in the longer term to meet global climate goals.

They will receive more than $1bn from taxpayers and are creating carbon credits that count against Australia's greenhouse targets.

It would be difficult, for example, for him to explain how his own climate policy could possibly meet Australia's greenhouse targets, if he could be forced to take the question.

Five big developed countries have voluntarily cancelled emission reduction "credits" achieved by overshooting their first Kyoto Protocol greenhouse targets – the same kind of credits Australia is banking to boast it has already "met and beaten" its international pledges.

Queensland faces a "dramatic escalation" in carbon pollution that guarantees Australia will fail to meet even its "weak" greenhouse targets unless the commonwealth sets a price on emissions, the state's environment minister, Steven Miles, has warned.

"You've got Mr Frydenberg overseas saying nice things and signing Australia up to greenhouse targets, which is terrific, but then he comes back to Queensland and bags us for actually backing in that target and acting on climate change," he says.