Packing Our Target For Paris

ABC

The Federal Government has announced the emissions reduction target Australia will take to the Paris climate summit at the end of the year.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has signed off on a target to cut emissions by 2030 by 26-28% below our 2005 levels.
The Prime Minister says the target is credible, and sets Australia in the middle of the pack out of comparable countries going into Paris.
But Labor and the Greens have both slammed the target as "pathetically weak".
Director of the Centre for Climate Economics and Policy at ANU, Frank Jotzo, told Hack that the target may have exceeded some expectations, but only because expectations were so low.
"I think there will be a sigh of relief that Australia is in fact coming to the table with a meaningful target, however it is equally clear that that target will fall short of international expectations."

Australia's target is lower than the US (26-28% by 2025), Canada and NZ (30% by 2030), and Europe (40% by 2030).
China is the world's top emitter in total and of the top 15 emitters, but Australia produces the most carbon emissions per capita.