{"id":13586,"date":"2021-10-26T15:13:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T15:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=13586"},"modified":"2021-10-26T15:13:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T15:13:44","slug":"greens-scrutiny-reveals-fossil-fuel-consultant-modelled-net-zero-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/10\/26\/greens-scrutiny-reveals-fossil-fuel-consultant-modelled-net-zero-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens scrutiny reveals fossil fuel consultant modelled net zero plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today in senate estimates, interrogation by Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young revealed that fossil fuel industry go-to modeller Brian Fisher was contracted to oversee and verify the cabinet modelling for net zero.<br \/>\nFisher, the former head of ABARE, and managing director of BAEconomics, developed controversial\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/mar\/19\/climate-modelling-cited-by-angus-taylor-did-not-model-labor-policy\">modelling<\/a>\u00a0that was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.minister.industry.gov.au\/ministers\/taylor\/media-releases\/true-cost-labors-energy-tax-revealed\">used by Minister Taylor<\/a>\u00a0to bludgeon Bill Shorten\u2019s climate policy at the 2019 election.\u00a0He has now been rewarded with $100,000 in contracts by Taylor\u2019s Department.<br \/>\nFull details of Fisher\u2019s net zero 2050 plan have not yet been revealed, however elements leaked to The Australian show gas, resources and agricultural \u00adexports will continue to grow and even exceed current levels by 2050.<br \/>\nRenew Economy has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/reneweconomy.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/190502-Brian-Fisher-Backgrounder.pdf\">documented<\/a>\u00a0Fisher\u2019s previous commissioned modelling for the fossil fuel industry, investigation by the ombudsman and claims by various media outlets of misleading reporting.<br \/>\n<strong>Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cClimate denial is at the heart of the government\u2019s modelling used to win over the Nationals on net zero.<br \/>\n\u201cBurning more gas in a net zero world, as this modelling \u2018predicts\u2019, \u00a0shows the 2050 deal is a fraud.<br \/>\n\u201cJust when we thought this government couldn\u2019t get any more disgraceful, they stoop lower.<br \/>\n\u201cEmploying a known friend of the fossil fuel industry to model net zero while expanding gas exports proves this government has no interest in curbing the climate crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in senate estimates, interrogation by Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young revealed that fossil fuel industry go-to modeller Brian Fisher was contracted to oversee and verify the cabinet modelling for net zero. Fisher, the former head of ABARE, and managing director of BAEconomics, developed controversial\u00a0modelling\u00a0that was\u00a0used by Minister Taylor\u00a0to bludgeon Bill Shorten\u2019s climate policy at the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/10\/26\/greens-scrutiny-reveals-fossil-fuel-consultant-modelled-net-zero-plan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greens scrutiny reveals fossil fuel consultant modelled net zero plan&#8221;<\/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-13586","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\/13586","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=13586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}