Almost 70 per cent of readers surveyed by The Australian Financial Review believe Australia is unlikely to meet its emissions reductions targets under the Paris Agreement, as Opposition Leader Peter Dutton threatens to repudiate the binding pledge if the coalition wins government.

Under the Paris Agreement, states are required to reduce net emissions by 43 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, a target that Mr Dutton has said Australia “[doesn’t] have any prospect of achieving”.