{"id":169975,"date":"2025-07-28T15:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T05:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/?p=169975"},"modified":"2025-08-21T14:54:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:54:43","slug":"paris-agreement-australia-nationally-determined-contribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/paris-agreement-australia-nationally-determined-contribution\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Paris Agreement and why does Australia need to set a Nationally Determined Contribution?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Paris Agreement, adopted by 195 countries in 2015, represents the world\u2019s collective approach to tackling climate change. Under the agreement, nations submit targets to cut climate pollution \u2013 described as Nationally Determined Contributions. Together, these targets chart a global pathway to slash climate pollution and prevent global temperatures from exceeding agreed limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the Paris Agreement, countries are required to submit increasingly strong targets every five years, enabling them to \u201cratchet up\u201d (or ramp up) their effort over time to cut climate pollution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>National targets need to be backed by plans and policies to allow those planned reductions to be achieved.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year marks a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/why-australia-needs-to-set-a-strong-climate-target-this-year\/\">critical moment for our climate future<\/a>. Under the Paris Agreement, nations are required to submit new 2035 climate targets. Collectively, these targets must slash global climate pollution fast enough to keep temperatures within internationally agreed limits designed to prevent catastrophic harm to people and ecosystems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The central goal of the Paris Agreement is \u201cholding the increase in the global average&nbsp; temperature to well below 2\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels\u201d and pursuing efforts \u201cto limit the temperature increase to 1.5\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia\u2019s 2035 climate target is an opportunity to set Australia on the right path, one which keeps our kids safer from the impacts of climate change and sets our economy up for success in a fossil fuel-free world. Climate Council\u2019s report, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/resources\/why-australias-2035-climate-target-matters\/\">Stronger Target, Safer Future: Why Australia\u2019s 2035 Climate Target Matters<\/a>, provides a framework for setting the strongest possible targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Securing a safer future means hitting the brakes on accelerating climate change<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Climate science is clear: humanity is now releasing huge volumes of heat-trapping greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, primarily from the burning of coal, oil, and gas. This layer of gas acts like a blanket, trapping more heat every year. That heat fuels worsening extreme weather events and is dramatically damaging the ecological systems that sustain human life. In other words, we are living through a climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the future, the scale and severity of the climate crisis will depend on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How quickly we cut climate pollution; and&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How much global temperatures rise as a result.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Every fraction of a degree of global temperature rise leads to more frequent and ferocious extreme weather events, ecosystem damage, and impacts on lives around the world. On the other hand, avoiding even a fraction of a degree of global heating is extremely significant in reducing risks to communities worldwide.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Global average temperature rise is now 1.3\u00b0C above the pre-industrial average and, in 2024, global average temperatures hit 1.6\u00b0C over a full year, breaking through 1.5\u00b0C for the first time. Importantly, these temperature thresholds cannot be breached in a single year \u2013 climate science, and the Paris Agreement, take a longer-term view of global average temperature over decades. But this is a clear warning sign that we are moving closer and closer to exceeding the 1.5\u00b0C temperature threshold.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are currently on a trajectory towards drastic global temperature rise and catastrophic climate impacts that could undermine the foundations of our society, prosperity, and security. Swift action to slash climate pollution from the burning of coal, oil and gas is the only solution which can protect those most vulnerable to the catastrophic impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cClimate history is playing out before our eyes. We\u2019ve had not just one or two record-breaking years, but a full 10-year series. This has been accompanied by devastating and extreme weather, rising sea levels and melting ice, all powered by record-breaking greenhouse gas levels due to human activities.\u201d &#8211; WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rate of global warming is now 0.27\u00b0C per decade and, without urgent efforts to cut climate pollution, we will overshoot the Paris Agreement\u2019s goal of holding warming well below 2\u00baC in less than two decades. Climate change is accelerating and the risks are escalating at a much quicker pace than we previously thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UN\u2019s latest assessment concluded that the \u201ccurrent national climate plans fall miles short of what\u2019s needed to stop global heating from crippling every economy, and wrecking billions of lives and livelihoods across every country\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is in this context that countries are required to submit their 2035 target under the Paris Agreement later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What climate target should Australia commit to?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia will submit our new 2035 climate target, a Nationally Determined Contribution, under the Paris Agreement this year. The current target, to reduce Australia&#8217;s climate pollution 43% on 2005 levels by 2030, was legislated in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Climate Change Authority has been charged with providing advice to the Australian Government on setting and achieving its 2035 target. This advice is expected to be shared imminently. In 2024, the Authority released an issues paper, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/resources\/submission-targets-pathways-progress\/\">Targets, Pathways and Progress\u2019<\/a>, which considered a target range of 65-75% below 2005 levels by 2035.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In anticipation of this advice being provided to the Australian Government, Climate Council commissioned Climate Resource to assess the global warming implications of an Australian 2035 climate target. The analysis uses the latest emissions data and shows what an Australian target means for global average temperature risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This new analysis shows the only Australian target that&#8217;s compatible with holding global warming below 2\u00b0C is net zero by 2035. The closer the Australian Government\u2019s 2035 climate target gets to net zero, the less climate risk Australians face.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The analysis also shows that a 2035 climate target of -75% or more (on 2005 levels) is aligned with more than 2\u00b0C of global heating, but likely less than 2.3\u00b0C*. Weaker targets are aligned with even higher levels of global heating. Each fraction of a degree of global heating is associated with more catastrophic impacts to communities and ecosystems. A -65% target is aligned with below 2.4\u00b0C of global heating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Australian Government must set the strongest possible 2035 climate target. A stronger target will keep Australians safer. A weaker target risks more disasters, more damage and more danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"690\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Infographic-Turning-Down-the-Heat-on-Australia_s-2035-Climate-Target_V9-690x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-169976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Infographic-Turning-Down-the-Heat-on-Australia_s-2035-Climate-Target_V9-690x1024.png 690w, https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Infographic-Turning-Down-the-Heat-on-Australia_s-2035-Climate-Target_V9-202x300.png 202w, https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Infographic-Turning-Down-the-Heat-on-Australia_s-2035-Climate-Target_V9-768x1139.png 768w, https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Infographic-Turning-Down-the-Heat-on-Australia_s-2035-Climate-Target_V9-1036x1536.png 1036w, https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Infographic-Turning-Down-the-Heat-on-Australia_s-2035-Climate-Target_V9-1381x2048.png 1381w, https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Infographic-Turning-Down-the-Heat-on-Australia_s-2035-Climate-Target_V9-scaled.png 1726w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Climate consequences if the world fails to set strong targets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As our climate has warmed, Australia has been being hit hard. Where long-term global warming is currently about 1.3\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels, Australia has warmed by an average of around 1.51\u00b0C since national records began in 1910.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This increase in temperature is fuelling more frequent and intense extreme weather events, including extreme heat, heavy rainfall, coastal inundation, dangerous bushfire weather and drought. Many communities have now experienced back-to-back disasters that would have previously been considered a 1-in-50 or 1-in-100 year weather event.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5\u00b0C (IPCC 2018) shows the risks for both human and natural systems are lower if global temperature rise stabilises at 1.5\u00b0C. There are substantial increases in extreme weather events (e.g. extreme heat, heavy precipitation events and drought) between 1.5\u00b0C and 2\u00b0C. Impacts on land-based biodiversity and ecosystems are less at 1.5\u00b0C than 2\u00b0C, but overshooting the 1.5\u00b0C target could have irreversible impacts on some species and ecosystems.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"845\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Impacts-at-1.5C-and-2C-of-Warming_V6-845x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-169994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Impacts-at-1.5C-and-2C-of-Warming_V6-845x1024.jpg 845w, https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Impacts-at-1.5C-and-2C-of-Warming_V6-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Impacts-at-1.5C-and-2C-of-Warming_V6-768x931.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Impacts-at-1.5C-and-2C-of-Warming_V6-1267x1536.jpg 1267w, https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Impacts-at-1.5C-and-2C-of-Warming_V6-1690x2048.jpg 1690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 845px) 100vw, 845px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Climate change is accelerating, and current global efforts \u2013 including Australia\u2019s \u2013 are dangerously inadequate. The future scale and severity of the climate crisis will depend on how quickly and deeply we slash global climate pollution. Each fraction of a degree of global heating is associated with more catastrophic impacts to communities and ecosystems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information see our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/resources\/why-australias-2035-climate-target-matters\/\">Stronger Target, Safer Future: Why Australia\u2019s 2035 Climate Target Matters<\/a> report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Climate Council has launched a petition calling on the Australian Government to set the strongest possible 2035 climate target \u2013 and take urgent action to meet it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.climatecouncil.org.au\/actions\/petition-climate-targets-and-action\/\">sign the petition now<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">*Assuming other countries adopt the same per-capita share of the global carbon budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Paris Agreement, adopted by 195 countries in 2015, represents the world\u2019s collective approach to tackling climate change. 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