{"id":13865,"date":"2021-11-16T03:02:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T03:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=13865"},"modified":"2021-11-16T03:02:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T03:02:25","slug":"heat-on-labor-and-liberal-as-1-5-alive-but-coal-gas-on-death-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/heat-on-labor-and-liberal-as-1-5-alive-but-coal-gas-on-death-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat on Labor and Liberal as 1.5 alive but coal & gas on death row"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Greens have said the next election will be a climate fight with the heat now on Liberal and Labor, after the Glasgow Climate Pact put coal & gas on death row and committed countries to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees, which will mean Australia taking to next year\u2019s summit 2030 targets of 75% emissions cuts.
\nHowever, within hours of signing up to the Glasgow Climate Pact, Angus Taylor has ruled out setting new 2030 targets prior to COP27 in November 2022, which the Pact explicitly requests and urges Australia to do.
\nKeith Pitt has also used the opportunity post-Glasgow to state that \u201cwe won\u2019t be closing mines and closing coal-fired power stations\u201d, in direct contradiction to the Pact\u2019s agreement to accelerate the phase-down of unabated coal power.
\nAll parties to the pact also recognized that the impacts of climate change will be much lower at the temperature increase of 1.5 \u00b0C compared with 2 \u00b0C and resolved to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 \u00b0C.
\nThe independent Climate Targets Panel has determined that a 74% emissions reduction on 2005 levels is required by 2030 for Australia to do it\u2019s fair share to limit global heating to 1.5\u00b0C.
\nGreens Leader Adam Bandt MP said:<\/strong>
\n\u201cForget whether it\u2019s \u2018phase out\u2019 or \u2018phase down\u2019, the Glasgow pact has put coal and gas on death row.
\n\u201cI\u2019m not sure the government has fully realised what they\u2019ve signed up to or the implications for Liberal and Labor next year.
\n\u201cThe Glasgow pact means getting out of coal, but Liberal and Labor want 116 new coal and gas projects.
\n\u201cWith such a strong focus on limiting global heating to 1.5 degrees, the Glasgow pact has upped the ante for Liberal and Labor, as neither have 2030 targets consistent with 1.5 degrees but both must pledge higher ambition before next year\u2019s climate summit in Egypt.
\n\u201cFrom now on, anything less than a 75% by 2030 target and a pledge for no more coal and gas means giving up on the Glasgow pact.
\n\u201cThe next election will be a climate fight and the heat is now on Liberal and Labor to stop their push for more coal and gas and lift 2030 targets to 75% to keep 1.5 alive.
\n\u201cOnly the Greens\u2019 policies are in line with Glasgow.
\n\u201cWith Greens in balance of power after the next election, we\u2019ll kick the Liberals out and push the next government to go further and faster for no more coal and gas and a 75% cut by 2030.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Greens have said the next election will be a climate fight with the heat now on Liberal and Labor, after the Glasgow Climate Pact put coal & gas on death row and committed countries to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees, which will mean Australia taking to next year\u2019s summit 2030 targets of 75% … Continue reading “Heat on Labor and Liberal as 1.5 alive but coal & gas on death row”<\/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-13865","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\/13865","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=13865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}