Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Australia’s Energy Minister Angus Taylor questioned why Australia is the climate bad guy, when we generate only 1.2% of global emissions? However, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said that pressure will increase on China.
The energy minister argues that the real villain of climate change is China, not Australia – but economic heavyweights are escaping scrutiny
- Federal Energy Minister Angus Taylor says the world needs to focus on China
- China accounts for almost a third of global greenhouse gas emissions
- He said global leaders are too focused on the emissions of developed nations
Via CHARLIE MOORE, POLITICAL REPORT FOR MAIL AUSTRALIA DAILY
PUBLISHED: 11:34 AEDT, December 23, 2021 | UPDATED: 11:53 AEDT, December 23, 2021
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Mr. Taylor said politicians at COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow last month was so focused on reducing emissions in the developed world that China wasn’t even present in the negotiations.
‘I mean just under a third of global emissions today come from China and we’re responsible for just over one per cent as you know.
“And the debate still revolves around countries like Australia.”
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‘Now the truth of the matter is that if China is a third of emissions and emissions are the problem then China will be a very important part of the focus.
‘But we don’t see that at the COP, we don’t see it in the general debate. It’s an opportunity to try and destroy industries that people don’t like,’ he said.
“People don’t like our mining industry, they don’t like our agriculture.”
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Last week, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said he believes pressure will increase on China to come up with ‘something fundamentally more ambitious’ in the fight against climate change. .
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There’s a very clear explanation for why Australia is bullied on climate change – bullies smell like blood. Our Prime Minister announced Net Zero goal just before COP26, signaling a need to be satisfied. Now, the global community is leaning on Australia, to see how else they can strangle our leaders.
As for US national security adviser Jake Sullivan’s claim that pressure will mount on China, it’s certainly Jake, in your own time. This too Jake Sullivan, who earlier this year begged OPEC to increase crude oil production, in a desperate attempt to rescue Biden from the political consequences of his ill-advised war on domestic US energy production.
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