Australian Broadcasting Corporation: With increasing focus on international climate change cooperation in the run-up to the 2015 United Nations Climate Conference in Paris, ministers in the Abbott Government have been saying that Australia is doing its share to tackle global warming.
Environment Minister Greg Hunt says Australia's emissions reduction efforts can be compared favourably to the United States.
"If you use the same basis as the United States - 2005 to 2020 - the US is minus 17, we're minus 12 per cent," Environment...