Greens climate change and energy spokesperson, Adam Bandt MP, responded today to the comments from Labor frontbencher, Richard Marles, that \u201cThe global market for thermal coal has collapsed, and wonderful \u2013 that\u2019s a good thing \u2013 because what that implies is the world is acting in relation to climate change.\u201d
\nQuotes attributable to Mr Bandt:
\n\u201cHe\u2019s right. That\u2019s why Richard and Labor should support my bill to phase out thermal coal.\u201d
\n\u201cLabor can\u2019t say its wonderful countries overseas want to burn less coal and then support expanded coal exports.\u201d
\n\u201cWe need a plan to phase out coal mining in Australia by 2030 so the industry can transition in an orderly and just way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Greens climate change and energy spokesperson, Adam Bandt MP, responded today to the comments from Labor frontbencher, Richard Marles, that \u201cThe global market for thermal coal has collapsed, and wonderful \u2013 that\u2019s a good thing \u2013 because what that implies is the world is acting in relation to climate change.\u201d Quotes attributable to Mr Bandt: … Continue reading “Greens call on Labor to back Marles over coal”<\/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-1631","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\/1631","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=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}