Abbott's brain child "Direct Action" was always just window dressing. Something to try and appease the greenies and make it look like the gov was actually doing something about climate change. In reality Abbott has always thought, in his own words, that "climate change is crap". Direct action was a bit of politics, nothing more. Bereft of functionality.
Now the numbers are in. After the Abbott gov repealed the very well functioning carbon tax that was actually working to bring down Australia's greenhouse emissions (along with an income stream for the gov) and the implementation of Abbott's political window dressing "Direct Action" emissions reduction plan, it's now obvious to all that Direct Action is an abysmal failure.
For the first time in a decade, Australia's carbon emissions have increased under Direct Action, and are set to keep doing so for years to come.
Australia's national greenhouse gas emissions are set to keep rising well beyond 2020 on current trends, with the projected growth rate one of the worst in the developed world, a new analysis has found.
An assessment of recent government emissions data, carried out by the carbon consultancy firm RepuTex, says that in the 2014-15 financial year Australia's carbon pollution rose for the first time in almost a decade when compared to the previous year.
From there they say separate government forecasts, also released late last year, show Australia's emissions are on track for a further 6 per cent increase to 2020.
RepuTex's own projections find that on these trends Australian emissions would still not reach a peak before 2030, taking pollution beyond the historical high set almost a decade ago.
RepuTex said this trajectory would put Australia's absolute emissions growth among the highest for developed nations. Only Finland, Sweden and Estonia are forecast to do worse between 2000 and 2020, with emissions falling in countries such as the United States, Germany and Britain. Sydney Morning Herald
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