BERLIN (AP) 鈥 Australia is joining the 鈥渃limate club鈥 backed by the Group of Seven major economies to take more ambitious action in tackling global warming, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Monday.
The club was first proposed by Nobel Prize winner William Nordhaus as a way of getting countries to and then require trading partners to meet those same standards. Such moves are opposed by major emerging economies like China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gas.
鈥淲e鈥檙e very pleased to join the climate club because we are ambitious and we also see that this isn鈥檛 just the right thing to do by the environment, but this is also the right thing to do by jobs and by our economy,鈥 Albanese said at a news conference in Berlin after meeting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who made the idea a .
"One thing we can do is to cooperate and learn off each other, because you can鈥檛 address climate change as just a national issue. It has to be by definition, a global response,鈥 Albanese said.
Albanese's government by the end of the decade 鈥 almost double the previous target. In March, Parliament passed a law requiring Australia's biggest greenhouse gas polluters .
Other countries that have joined the climate club include Argentina, Chile, Denmark, Indonesia, Colombia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Singapore and Uruguay.
