Australia Rejects Climate Targets

Despite the damning UN climate report – read my post “Code Red for Humanity” published on August 10 – Australia is adamant in rejecting climate targets. 

On Tuesday, its prime minister stubbornly maintained that the country is doing enough to tackle climate change. 

Scott Morrison disdainfully dismissed the idea of a net-zero target. All he conceded was a vaguely-worded goal that his country will achieve net-zero carbon emissions "as soon as possible", and preferably by 2050 – but has not made any commitments to do so. 

And he shamefully sought to deflect focus onto developing countries instead. 

Many politicians within his own right-wing coalition with close ties to the coal industry have denied climate change is happening or sought to play down the risks. 

Senator Matthew Canavan described the latest UN climate report as "fear porn" and said the panel that drafted it (are) always warning "the sky is falling in, and it never does". 

The prime minister once brought a lump of coal onto the floor of parliament, urging people not to be scared of it. 

Australia is at the forefront of the global climate crisis, as one of the world's largest fossil fuel exporters and the victim of multiple climate-worsened disasters. In recent years, the country has suffered intense droughts, the largest bushfires in its recorded history, floods and coastal erosion among other disasters. 

Users of Huawei's Harmony Operating System have up to now exceeded 50 million, with eight people upgrading to the OS every second, Huawei told the Global Times on Monday. 

Huawei officially launched HarmonyOS 2, the OS for smartphones, on June 02. The system – read as Hongmeng in Chinese – is an operating system designed for multiple devices and settings. It was first launched on Internet-of-Things devices. 

The OS is also widely viewed as the Chinese tech giant's replacement for Google's Android OS, since the Chinese company was barred from using Google's services under a US government export ban. 

The HarmonyOS has already been broadly used in Huawei watches, laptops and home appliances over the past two years. 

Huawei had previously predicted that by the end of 2021, the number of devices equipped with HarmonyOS would reach 300 million, of which 200 million are Huawei devices.