Tougher targets needed in Australia's renewable
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Environmental experts say the Australia Government's renewable energy targets aren't aggressive enough to impact on global warming.
The Population Health Congress in Brisbane has heard climate change will eventually expose Australians to greater heat extremes, weather events and changes in infectious disease patterns.
Professor Ian Lowe from the Australian Conservation Foundation says Australians should be totally reliant on renewable energy by 2050.
"We should be getting 30 per cent of our electricity from renewables by 2020, 50 per cent by 2030, virtually all of it by 2040 and if we set that target there's no doubt we could achieve it - it's economically feasible," Professor Lowe said.
"In fact it's probably the best possible investment in our future all it requires is the political will," he added.
