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Climate Change Act 2022.

País/Territorio
Australia
Tipo de documento
Legislación
Fecha
2022
Fuente
FAO, FAOLEX
Título completo
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.
Materia
Aire y atmósfera
Palabra clave
Legislación básica Cambio climático Emisiones Institución Relaciones internacionales/cooperación
Área geográphica
Asia y Pacifico, Australia y Nueva Zelandia, Océano Índico, Oceania, Pacífico Sur
Resumen

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.

Texto completo
Inglés
Página web
www.legislation.gov.au