Exclusive: New resources minister also says ‘the pathway from coal to renewables goes only through gas’
– was “a big challenge for agriculture and the gas industry, but they are very much onto it and have been talking about how they reduce their methane for a number of years”.
The potential revival of the methane pledge would form part of the new government’s efforts to extract itself from what Anthony Albanese terms “the naughty corner” of global climate action, by projecting renewed policy ambition both to the Pacific and the rest of the world. King said she did not intend to be a federal resources minister actively resisting the transition to low emissions – a stance that many of her predecessors in the portfolio, both Coalition and Labor, have adopted.
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