Australia has become a climate change "free-rider", dropping off the list of nations taking "credible" action to curb greenhouse gas emissions, according to a panel led by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
In the Africa Progress Panel's 2015 report, Australia is named along with Canada, Japan and Russia as appearing "to have withdrawn from the community of nations seeking to tackle dangerous climate change
YIPEEEE what a crock
A separate report on Thursday by energy consultants Pitt & Sherry said Australia's emissions had jumped 1.6 per cent in the first nine months after the scrapping of the carbon price in June 2014, led by a rebound in brown coal-fired electricity production. Emissions from coal, petroleum and natural gas use are all rising for the first time since November 2011. Good
Larissa Waters, Greens climate spokeswoman on climate change, said the Abbott government had been "ignoring the science", leaving it increasingly out of step with the rest of the world.
"It's perfectly clear that Australia is widely regarded as a global climate pariah," Senator Waters said.
Numpties
The report also said coal companies in Australia, the EU and the US were "campaigning vigorously against climate action".
