Until recently, pressure on Australia to drop carryover credits had little impact. But times change | Richard Denniss

As Australia worries about the growing influence of China, we need the help of Europe and the US more than everPolitical pressure makes the impossible inevitable. Unfortunately, so much has been written about how democracy is broken, that it can seem churlish to point out that sometimes it works just as it is designed to: slowly, imperfectly and then suddenly. Take, for example, Scott Morrison's backflip on using so-called "carryover credits" to meet Australia's Paris climate commitments.In 2018 Richie Merzian, who is both the head of the Australia Institute's climate and energy program and a former Australian diplomat, was the first to bell the cat on the Morrison government's plan to rely on accounting tricks rather than make actual emission reductions. Continue reading...