Greens climate change and energy spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today expressed his disappointment that Labor\u2019s National Conference has failed to act on coal.
\n\u201cIt is fundamentally dishonest to move motions about the climate emergency but then have no plan to stop the burning and exporting of coal,\u201d said Mr Bandt.
\n\u201cTheir refusal to phase out coal, along with their Abbott-esque commitment to pro-rata emissions reductions across the economy, shows that Labor is not prepared to tackle the climate emergency.
\n\u201cUnless Labor comes up with a plan to stop Adani and end coal exports, Bill Shorten will be dogged by striking students and climate protestors right up until election day.
\n\u201cMeanwhile, as Australia\u2019s emissions continue to rise, Angus Taylor continues to mislead the public about the Paris Agreement.
\n“Australia will not ‘smash the target without intervention’ because it’s an economy-wide target, not an electricity-specific one, and the government’s own data says we’re on track to miss it.
\n\u201cThere is no electricity sector-specific target in our Paris commitments. We have promised to cut pollution across the whole country, but instead pollution is going up.
\n\u201cSo far, the government\u2019s only plan to meet Paris appears to be using dodgy accounting to cook the books and count dodgy \u2018carryover\u2019 credits from Kyoto towards Paris.
\n\u201cThe only thing we are going to \u2018smash\u2019 under this government are temperature records.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Greens climate change and energy spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today expressed his disappointment that Labor\u2019s National Conference has failed to act on coal. \u201cIt is fundamentally dishonest to move motions about the climate emergency but then have no plan to stop the burning and exporting of coal,\u201d said Mr Bandt. \u201cTheir refusal to phase out … Continue reading “Labor conference fails on climate and coal as Liberals\u2019 Taylor misleads on Paris”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}