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Climate Change Act 2022.

Country/Territory
Australia
Document type
Legislation
Date
2022
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Long title
An Act to set out Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets, to provide for annual climate change statements, to confer advisory functions on the Climate Change Authority, and for related purposes.
Subject
Air & atmosphere
Keyword
Basic legislation Climate change Emissions Institution International relations/cooperation
Geographical area
Asia and the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Indian Ocean, Oceania, South Pacific
Abstract

The objects of this Act are: (aa) to advance an effective and progressive response to the urgent threat of climate change drawing on the best available scientific knowledge; and (a) to set out Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets which contribute to the global goals of: (i) holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre‑industrial levels; and (ii) pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre‑industrial levels; and (b) to promote accountability and ambition by requiring the Minister to: prepare annual climate change statements; and cause copies of those statements to be tabled in each House of the Parliament; and to ensure that independent advice from the Climate Change Authority informs preparation of annual climate change statements and the greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets to be included in a new or adjusted nationally determined contribution.

Full text
English
Website
www.legislation.gov.au