After much anticipation, Australia has set its new climate targets: a reduction of 62 and 70 per cent within the next 10 years.

Climate groups have already criticised the targets as "timid, weak, and a failure".

Under the Paris Agreement, countries have to submit increasingly ambitious targets every five years with the goal of keeping warming below 1.5 degrees.

These targets will be scrutinised through many lenses — scientific, political, community expectations and the business community's concerns.

We've consulted climate experts to give their assessment of how these targets stack up with what's at stake.

Aiming higher to reach net zero

Just months ago, the International Court of Justice confirmed the goal of the Paris Agreement is to limit warming to1.5 degrees, and that countries

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