UK 'cut climate pledges' to clinch Australia trade deal
Ministers agreed to cut key climate pledges to help clinch the UK trade deal with Australia it has emerged.
According to an email from an unnamed Cabinet official, leaked to Sky News, government ministers referred to dropping "climate asks" to get the deal "over the line". This included cutting references to limiting global warming to specific temperatures. The government said the deal will reinforce climate commitments.
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The draft agreement signed in June does not include an explicit commitment to limiting global warming this century to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
However, the UK government insisted that the trade agreement will include a firm commitment from both countries to the Paris goals when finalised. A spokesperson said: "Any suggestion the deal won't sign up to these vital commitments is completely untrue." Adding that Britain's climate change policies were some of "the most ambitious in the world". With such loose promises and nothing in writing, Climate NGOs will not be impressed by that.
Greenpeace already said that Australia's commitments to the Paris Agreement were currently "very weak" and that it was the only developed economy not to have improved on emissions targets set out in 2015.
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