Prime minister expected to reveal how Australia will meet climate commitment after cabinet formally adopted target
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Meanwhile, the government is trying to push the line that the Labor party is going to try and “outlaw coal”.
That was something that Barnaby Joyce was really trying out yesterday during question time. At the moment though, both the major parties have the same goal, and Labor hasn’t set a 2030 target, or released its climate policy, which is something the government is also attacking it over.
It’s about how you get there. We’ve been clear that our approach is through investment in the technologies that can ensure Australian industries right now can manage to reduce their emissions footprint wherever possible, that new industries can kind of move through the investments and that’s why the technology roadmap that we released quite some time ago, sets out the different stretch goals for the future in terms of the type of price, you need to be able to achieve clean hydrogen or energy storage or low emission steel or low emissions aluminium or soil carbon measurement or carbon capture and storage all important important ways to actually try to drive efficiencies in terms of cleaner, low emissions, zero emissions ways of going about achieving things and now.
Labor have simply announced a target, but haven’t detailed how they expected to get there. And they certainly haven’t, as the Prime Minister has ruled out the potential of closing down certain parts of Australia’s industries to meet that target.
All of this is about ensuring that we achieve net zero by 2050 in ways that maximise the job opportunities for Australians that deliver the type of support for regional communities to be able to adjust that if countries like Japan and Korea, some of our major export markets, change their consumption patterns in terms of the resources and energy that they buy from Australia, we want to make sure that we’ve replaced that where possible, so we have new export industries into those markets, new resources, new energy sources and also that, where possible, they are supporting and underpinning jobs in communities that may have been impacted by that transition into an entirely sensible way to go about things.
In contrast, I guess, in the sense that the debate we’ve been having and we’ve been working through these plans, not just over days or weeks but many of them in terms of how the plans are developed and particularly stretch goals to achieve lower emissions, we’ve been having the right debates as a Coalition about how you achieve net zero whilst protecting regional communities and jobs, not just the Labor party approach of signing up to a target without those sorts of protections or plans.
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