Age: More than three quarters of the cut in greenhouse gas emissions needed for Australia to meet its international commitments on climate change would be left to the last minute under the government's direct action plan, a budget analysis suggests.
The analysis by The Climate Institute finds nearly the entire 5 per cut in emissions by 2020 would be left to the final two years of the decade under the funding plan laid out in the budget.
It has prompted fresh claims the government is not serious...