{"id":13628,"date":"2021-10-29T01:35:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T01:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=13628"},"modified":"2021-10-29T01:35:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T01:35:23","slug":"amid-un-alarm-bells-greens-outline-vital-components-of-net-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/10\/29\/amid-un-alarm-bells-greens-outline-vital-components-of-net-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid UN alarm bells, Greens outline vital components of Net Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Scott Morrison\u2019s fraudulent plan setting us up for climate failure, Greens Leader Adam Bandt has outlined the essential components of a Net Zero strategy that will reduce emissions, protect regional communities, and meet an emissions reduction strategy consistent with the science, following a UN Emissions Gap Report showing that the gap between submitted emissions reduction targets and the required action is on track for a catastrophic 2.7 degrees of warming.
\nUnder such a rise Australia, the driest inhabited continent, will suffer extreme heat waves, bushfires, floods and more than twice as many droughts.
\nEven though many countries have stepped up to the Paris goal, weak targets like those Scott Morrison is taking to Glasgow are responsible for the \u2018gap\u2019.
\nGreens Leader\u00a0Adam Bandt MP said:\u00a0<\/strong>
\n\u201cWe needed a plan based on science but instead we got science fiction, a story where someone rides in on a unicorn in 2049 with technology that doesn’t yet exist and somehow saves us,\u201d Mr Bandt said.
\n\u201cThe United Nations has today rung the alarm bells, warning that with the current lack of political leadership, the world is on track for 2.7 degrees of warming.
\n\u201cScott Morrison’s fraudulent plan will cost 64,000 people dependent on a healthy Great Barrier Reef their jobs, see thousands die from heatwaves and dry up Australia\u2019s agricultural food bowls.
\n\u201cIf we keep mining and burning coal and gas, we won\u2019t stop the climate crisis.
\n\u201cThe government\u2019s non-binding projections count for nothing and anything less than a full NDC pledge for 75% reduction by 2030 is giving up on the Paris goal of 1.5 degrees of warming.
\n\u201cCoal and gas are the major causes of the climate crisis, but both Liberal and Labor want more, with plans to dig up coal beyond 2050.
\n\u201cThe only way to get climate action is by kicking the climate-denying Liberals out and putting the Greens into balance of power, so we can push the next government to take the climate action the science requires.\u201d
\nEssential components of a plan for Net Zero:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. No new coal and gas<\/li>\n
  2. End fossil fuel subsidies<\/li>\n
  3. Significant public investment to hit 100% renewable electricity by 2030<\/li>\n
  4. 100% of new light vehicle sales to be electric by 2030, including consumer subsidies and a national buildout of the fast charging network<\/li>\n
  5. Phase out of thermal coal exports by 2030 with a plan to transition workers into new mining and manufacturing jobs<\/li>\n
  6. Restore the price on carbon, which was successfully reducing emissions until its destruction by the Liberals<\/li>\n
  7. Home electrification and subsidies for domestic and community batteries to supplement utility scale development<\/li>\n
  8. $12bn to transform Australia into a green hydrogen and green manufacturing export powerhouse<\/li>\n
  9. Immediate end to native forest logging and broadscale land clearing to keep our existing carbon sinks intact<\/li>\n
  10. Net-zero by 2035 with net-negative in the years beyond until we return the world to a safe climate<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    With Scott Morrison\u2019s fraudulent plan setting us up for climate failure, Greens Leader Adam Bandt has outlined the essential components of a Net Zero strategy that will reduce emissions, protect regional communities, and meet an emissions reduction strategy consistent with the science, following a UN Emissions Gap Report showing that the gap between submitted emissions … Continue reading “Amid UN alarm bells, Greens outline vital components of Net Zero”<\/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-13628","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\/13628","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=13628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}