Barnaby Joyce gave three reasons for dumping net zero climate change targets. They’re all wrong.
The abiding image of the first day of the new parliament will not be the horde of new Labor MPs spilling into the depleted opposition benches, nor of Sussan Ley asking her first question as the first female Liberal leader.he would introduce a private member’s bill to dump Australia’s goal to reach net zero by 2050. Joyce and his former political foe Michael McCormack had apparently arrived in Canberra having cooked up a plan to carve up the spoils of the Coalition’s comprehensive election loss.
Second, Joyce says most of the world has abandoned the effort to reach net zero under the Paris Agreement, citing as examples countries including China, Brazil, Indonesia and the United States. Nonsense, saysRenewables in China are not only meeting the soaring demand for new power, but displacing fossil fuels and cutting China’s emissions.
One of the importers of this clean technology is Indonesia, Buckley notes. Earlier this month a Chinese-Indonesian consortium announced the construction of a $US6 billion battery factory to be built by the Chinese battery firm CATL in Indonesia to, in the words of a press release, “accelerate e-mobility and energy transition efforts in Indonesia and the world”.And far from abandoning the Paris Agreement efforts, Brazil is hosting this year’s United Nations climate negotiations in November.
“Much like inland Australia, we have a lot of wind, sun and land,” was Davis’ response. “For us, it was about how we could utilise those three resources to derive an income. And remember – we’d been using renewables for generations.”
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