39 | Friday, September 19, 2025Australia targets at least 62% emissions cut in the next decade Print | Front Page | Email this story To:From:Message:From (email):Message:MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia on Thursday set a new target of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by between 62% and 70% below 2005 levels by 2035. The new target adds to Australia's ambition of a 43% cut by the end of this decade and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, leader of the center-left Labor Party, will take his government's 2035 target to the U.N. General Assembly next week. Under the Paris climate agreement signed a decade ago, nations must increase their emissions reduction targets every five years. Opposition leader Sussan Ley said the 2035 target was not credible because the government would fail to meet its 2030 target.