"So what Australia should do nothing despite having one of the highest emissions per capita on the planet?How ridiculously selfish."Where did I say Australia should do nothing?
But that is moot, anyway, because Australia is not doing nothing:
Australia leads the world on renewable energy installation:
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/progra...ld-on-renewable-energy-installations/10793848Moreover, between 2010 and 2018, per capita emissions in Australia reduced by
13.3% (and
by ~19% if the CO2 emissions that have been abated via the significant and unprecedented one-off investment in LNG exports from Australia which would largely have displaced coal fired power in SE Asia).
By comparison,
per capita emissions over that period from
Canada fell by
10%, and from
New Zealand fell by
14%.
And
EU countries reduced their emissions by
21%, but that was heavily influenced by the UK, where emissions have fallen by 40%. If you strip out the contribution to reductions made by the UK, then UE emissions reductions would be less than Australia's reductions. For example, emissions ex Germany have fallen by 11%.
Why, I wonder, is there a consistent representation of Australia as some kind of emissions pariah by some commentators, when independently-derived factual analysis points to that not being the case at all?
