FILE PHOTO: Cars and buses sit on a road that leads onto the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Sydney, Australia, November 28, 2018. REUTERS/David Gray
SYDNEY/MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia could beat its target for cutting carbon emissions under the Paris accord by 2030 without counting credits from overachieving on its targets in previous climate pacts, Energy Minister Angus Taylor said on Thursday.
The latest projection marked a sharp shift for one of the world's biggest emitters per capita and came ahead of the United Nation's Climate Ambition Summit on Saturday, the fifth anniversary of the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
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