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CANBERRA, Oct. 8 -- Australia'sprimeministerhasrejectedcallsfromconservativecolleaguestowithdrawfromtheParisclimateagreement.
SpeakingaheadoftheUnitedNations' IntergovernmentalPanelonClimateChange (IPCC) report, PrimeMinisterScottMorrisonrepeatedhispreviousclaimthatAustraliawouldmeetitsemissionsreductiontarget "atacanter."
Australiahascommittedtoreducingitsemissionsby 26 percentfrom 2005 levelsby 2030.
ConservativemembersofthegovernmenthavecalledonMorrisontoabandontheemissionsreductiontarget, claimingthatabidingbyitwillleadtorisingpowerprices.
"WhenAustraliaputsitswordtosomething, itmeanssomething," Morrisonsaid.
"ThisisanenormouslyimportantissuetoourpartnersinthePacific, whoarestrategicpartnersinthePacific.
TheOppositionAustralianLaborParty (ALP) haspromisedtointroducea 45 percentemissionsreductiontargetifvictoriousattheupcominggeneralelection.
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