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Speaker 1: This idea that our trading partners will somehow punish us

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Speaker 1: for lacking ambition on climate change, I don't think passes

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Speaker 1: the sniff test. Yes, there are some provisions and some agreements,

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Speaker 1: but they're vaguely worded enough that you can drive around them.

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Speaker 1: If the UK, or the EU, or even the Aussies

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Speaker 1: really wanted to punish us, they could. The question is

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Speaker 1: whether they would not could and why would they were

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Speaker 1: a fraction of global emissions, what difference does it make anyway?

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Speaker 1: But most importantly it'd be pot kettle black from them

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Speaker 1: the Aussis, and we covered this at the time. So

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Speaker 1: they set their target of sixty two to seventy percent

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Speaker 1: reduction on two thousand five levels last month. That was

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Speaker 1: lower than they were forecast to do. They were criticized

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Speaker 1: by green groups it was contrary to advice from their

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Speaker 1: equivalent of the Climate Change Commission. Naughty naughty tisk tisc

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Speaker 1: In the UK, Star is being told to prepare the

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Speaker 1: government buildings there for temperatures of two degrees higher than

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Speaker 1: normal rather than the one point five limit that everyone's

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Speaker 1: hoping but failing to achieve. And the Big Four aren't

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Speaker 1: exactly doing their bit either. Just this morning, another new

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Speaker 1: climate report, because we get one every day. Guess what,

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Speaker 1: a record amount of emissions, the largest increase in modern

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Speaker 1: measurements since the nineteen fifties when we started doing that.

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Speaker 1: So it's not like the rest of the world is

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Speaker 1: covered in glory. It's a dog eat dog world out

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Speaker 1: there and everyone's basically up for themselves. In New Zealand,

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Speaker 1: there's no exception. Does this mean the government's made the

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Speaker 1: right call? Can they saddle up on a high horse. No,

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Speaker 1: But it also doesn't mean we're about to get sued

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Speaker 1: or blocked by our trading partners. For more from Early

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