Sydney Morning Herald: The Abbott government should commit at the Paris climate summit to double the long-term rate at which Australia is now cutting its greenhouse gas emissions, a senior French official said.
According to a "provisional evaluation" based in part on United Nations figures, Australia's current goal of reducing emissions by 5 per cent on 2000 levels by 2020 will amount to a 20 per cent cut by 2030 if the same trajectory is maintained, said Nicolas Hulot, a special climate envoy to French President Francois...