The New South Wales government is ramping up its fight against climate change by setting a new target to cut greenhouse emissions by 70 per cent by 2035.
abc.net.au/news/nsw-new-greenhouse-emissions-target/101804218New South Wales will slash greenhouse emissions by 70 per cent by 2035, in an ambitious new target Treasurer Matt Kean says will put the state at the forefront of the low-carbon economy.The new target will deliver emissions reductions equivalent to 55.2 million tonnes of carbon dioxideThis week the federal government committed $4.
"There is no bigger fight that we as a nation must face, than the fight against climate change," he said. "Now, many of those same communities have seen their homes and businesses inundated with one-in-a-thousand-year floods, three times in the space of nine months. "NSW can be a first mover attracting international capital, industry and talent, if it seizes its opportunity to be the engine room of the low carbon global economy," he said.
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