{"id":498752,"date":"2022-06-17T09:29:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T03:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=498752"},"modified":"2022-06-17T09:43:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T04:13:28","slug":"australia-commits-to-reducing-greenhouse-emissions-by-43-by-end-of-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/australia-commits-to-reducing-greenhouse-emissions-by-43-by-end-of-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia commits to reducing greenhouse emissions by 43% by end of decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s new government on Thursday formally committed to a more ambitious greenhouse gas reduction target of 43 per cent by the end of the decade in fulfillment of a key election pledge.<\/p>\n<p>The previous conservative government was dumped by voters at the May 21 election after it stuck to a seven-year-old pledge to reduce Australia&#8217;s emissions by only 26 per cent to 28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he had written to U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change executive secretary Patricia Espinosa Cantellano to inform her of Australia&#8217;s new 2030 target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s new government on Thursday formally committed to a more ambitious greenhouse gas reduction target of 43 per cent by the end of the decade in fulfillment of a key election pledge. The previous conservative government was dumped by voters at the May 21 election after it stuck to a seven-year-old pledge to reduce Australia&#8217;s emissions by only 26 per cent to 28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he had written to U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change executive secretary Patricia Espinosa Cantellano to inform her of Australia&#8217;s new 2030 target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}