Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has blamed the Greens political party for a decade of inaction on climate change, and challenged them to back Labor’s target of a 43 per cent emissions reduction by 2030. auspol
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has blamed the Greens political party for a decade of inaction on climate change, and challenged them to back Labor’s target of a 43 per cent emissions reduction by 2030.in September, promising to “consider those things in the fullness of time”.
“We have a mandate for our position on climate. We announced it in December last year, we announced 43 per cent by 2030. We announced 82 per cent renewables as part of the national energy market by 2030. It will create 604,000 new jobs,” he said. Back in 2009, the Greens twice voted with the Liberal and National parties to oppose then-prime minister Kevin Rudd’s proposed carbon pollution reduction scheme as they argued the scheme was not ambitious enough.
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