{"id":10913,"date":"2021-04-01T03:24:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T03:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=10913"},"modified":"2021-04-01T03:24:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T03:24:31","slug":"greens-lament-alp-joining-morrison-on-gas-2030-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/04\/01\/greens-lament-alp-joining-morrison-on-gas-2030-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens lament ALP joining Morrison on gas & 2030 targets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says Labor at its national conference has joined the Liberals by backing gas and having no 2030 target, leaving voters who want action on climate change with only the Greens.
\n\u201cGas is as dirty as coal. If you back new gas fields, you\u2019re not serious about stopping the climate crisis,\u201d Bandt said.
\n\u201cWith Labor\u2019s national conference falling in behind the Liberals\u2019 gas-led recovery and refusing to adopt a 2030 target, Labor is letting Scott Morrison off the hook. No hat-tips to renewables or bare-minimum EV policies can make up for a gas-fuelled lack of 2030 climate targets.\u201d
\nA clear alternative\u00a0<\/strong>
\n\u201cAfter Labor dropped the ball on climate at its national conference, the only path to climate action is kicking the Liberals out and putting the Greens in balance of power. At the next election, it will be very difficult for Labor to win majority government in its own right, but with just a small shift in the vote, voters can turf Scott Morrison out and put the Greens in balance of power, where we will push Labor to go faster and further on climate change and drop Morrison\u2019s gas-led recovery,\u201d Bandt said.
\nIndependent analysis<\/a>\u00a0shows that a small uniform swing of half a percent would produce a minority parliament, but Labor would need a swing of about 4% (which they only achieved once in the last 20 years, with Kevin07) to win government in its own right.
\nGas is an emissions bomb, not a transition fuel<\/strong>
\nRecently the IPCC identified methane emissions as even worse for the climate than previously thought and adjusted its accounting for methane greenhouse impact from 25 to\u00a028 times CO2<\/a>, which the Australian government also now accepts.
\n\u201cGas isn\u2019t the solution, it\u2019s the problem.
\n\u201cThe gas cartel has ramped up its lobbying efforts and the establishment parties have fallen into line, taking their corporate donations and then voting to open up new gas fields.
\n\u201cThe race is now on and the next 18 months are crucial to Australia\u2019s future. The gas industry knows that this is their last chance to lock in gas infrastructure, which in turn will lock Australia into a high-carbon future and blow any chance of meeting our international commitments,\u201d Bandt said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says Labor at its national conference has joined the Liberals by backing gas and having no 2030 target, leaving voters who want action on climate change with only the Greens. \u201cGas is as dirty as coal. If you back new gas fields, you\u2019re not serious about stopping the climate crisis,\u201d Bandt … Continue reading “Greens lament ALP joining Morrison on gas & 2030 targets”<\/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-10913","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\/10913","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=10913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}