Equivalent of stopping 1 person from pissing in the ocean. Doesn't have any significant global impact until the majority polluting countries like China, India and the USA do something significant

Let’s not give Australia a pollution pass, thank you.

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> CANBERRA, Australia - The Australian Parliament created landmark new laws Thursday that will make the nation's biggest greenhouse gas polluters reduce their emissions or pay for carbon credits.

> Set to take effect July 1, the reforms create a ceiling on the nation's emissions and force Australia's 215 most polluting facilities to reduce their emissions by 4.9% a year or reach the target with carbon credits.

> Big polluters would be able to buy carbon credits to help achieve their emission reduction targets, but polluters that use carbon credits to achieve more than 30% of their abatement would have to explain why they were not doing more to reduce their own emissions.

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Not at all what I was stating. Research the percentage Australia contributes globally compared to the dozens of other countries. I'm stating we can become a greenie utopia it won't count for squat in a global problem

Aus is one of the biggest actually pretty high up there (but that only counts due to the amount of coal and what not we export)

Which as I stated it is nothing in comparison to 100 of billions that are produced by USA China, Russia India etc. Australia is only higher because of its reliance of coal as an energy source and an export product. And Australia isn't in the top 10 and none of it matters globally until the big industrial nations do something.

Your argument is like saying Australia is up there in term of population but our 27 million people is minuscule compared to the billions and billions elsewhere.

And back to my original point. Good on Australia for doing this but until the whole world does something it's ineffective. What's Australia going to do put it self in a giant bubble.

Why would China commit if we don't?

What makes you think China would be influenced by anything Australia does? China announced its own climate objectives a couple of years back

Throw in Germany... first to complain and last to lead by example. Their green policy basically exist to stomp competition.