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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Business
Sarah Martin Chief political correspondent

Australia should abandon goal to limit global heating to 1.5C, says gas company eyeing Beetaloo Basin

Power lines run from Liddell Power Station near Muswellbrook
Unlocking gas reserves ‘is the single, largest emissions reduction project currently available’, Tamboran claimed in a submission to a Senate inquiry. Photograph: Tim Wimborne/Reuters

A gas company with interests in the Beetaloo Basin is calling on the federal government to rewrite its climate change legislation to abandon the “unattainable” objective of trying to limit global heating to 1.5C.

The call comes despite Australia being a signatory to the Paris agreement that aims to limit global warming to well below 2C – and preferably to 1.5C – compared to pre-industrial levels.

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