'Lazy symbolism': Labor fights back at Greens on coal exports auspol
Greens climate and energy spokesman Adam Bandt said young Australians would see Mr Albanese's comments on coal exports as proof that both Labor and the Liberals were "abandoning climate action" and fuelling a crisis."Coal is fuelling the fires, coal is fuelling the drought, and coal is fuelling the smoke over Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane.
"We all know the task is overwhelming and urgent, but smashing the globally agreed pathway and our chance for shared progress is politics at its most cynical and destructive."China is the world's biggest coal producer, with 47 per cent of production according to the International Energy Agency, followed by India, the United States, Australia and Indonesia.
"These activists are going for lazy symbolism rather than doing the hard yards of fighting for strong domestic action to cut carbon emissions," Mr Conroy said. "We have to stop pitting the environment against our economy – I think that is what we've got wrong for ten years," she said.Labor is facing a long internal debate on a new target to replace its election pledge to reduce Australian greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent by 2030, with frontbencher Joel Fitzgibbon calling for a lower target.
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