Australia is urged to embrace stronger climate targets ahead of the Glasgow summit.
The EU’s ambassador to Australia, Michael Pulch, says “We are calling on all of our partners – not only on Australia, all of our partners, particularly developed G20 countries – to be more ambitious now.”
Australia’s 2030 target remains set at the Abbott-era level of reducing emissions by 26% to 28% below 2005 levels.
Amid Coalition divisions in the lead-up to the climate summit in Glasgow in November, the Australian government has not formally committed to net zero emissions by 2050, saying only that it hopes to achieve it as soon as possible and preferably by that date.