New Energy Minister Chris Bowen has warned independents and Greens that his crossbench-proof climate policy won’t require negotiating an end to coal and gas. auspol
Labor has committed to legislating its target of hitting net zero emissions by 2050 – a goal with bipartisan support. However, it has not promised to do the same for its 2030 target, which is to cut greenhouse emissions by 43 per cent from 2005 levels, even though that is the party’s preference.
He has designated two areas to do the heavy lifting in Labor’s first term in government under the Powering Australia plan. “I find that argument just a little bit odd,” he said. “The [Greens’] argument goes something like this – to oversimplify it: ‘Congratulations on winning the election. The first thing we’d like you to do is trash the policies you took to the election.’ ”
He released an energy policy with more detail than his opponents five months ahead of the election and the Coalition ran scare campaigns claiming Labor’s climate policy would cost tens of thousands of coal mining jobs and add $560 to yearly energy bills.“You don’t take a policy with a target and its levers and the safeguard mechanism, which can be weaponised in a narrowcasting way, which the [Coalition] tried to do. That’s not a small target. It is not. So I do reject that.
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