THE CSIRO has reportedly told a Senate select committee that the Australian Federal Government’s emissions targets are not severe enough to achieve climate protection.
Senior CSIRO scientists Dr Raupach, Dr Church and Dr Canadell say that to have a 50% chance of avoiding a two-degree temperature rise a global emissions targets must be at minimum 5-10% by 2020 and 70-80% by 2050 on 2000 levels.
Rupache says there is still a tendency when framing policy to negotiate climate change by meeting economic and other goals as a trade off.
The committee’s inquiry into climate change has already received more than 7000 submissions. It was set up by the Opposition and Greens in February 2009 and will conduct its first public hearings April 2009.
The committee will also hear the concerns of individual businesses, including Rio Tinto and Woodside.
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