{"id":1925,"date":"2019-03-15T23:02:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T23:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2019-03-15T23:02:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T23:02:50","slug":"sharon-claydon-climate-action-welcomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/03\/15\/sharon-claydon-climate-action-welcomed\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Claydon &#8211; CLIMATE ACTION WELCOMED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I welcome the engagement of young Novocastrians in today\u2019s student strike for real action on climate change. I look forward to meeting student representatives and hearing their concerns directly.<br \/>\nThese students should be congratulated for getting active on the issues that matter. If more young people engaged in the political process, the Liberal Government mightn\u2019t be so cavalier in selling out their future and the future of our planet.<br \/>\nIn the last five years, the Liberal Government has not only failed to deliver\u00a0<em>any<\/em>\u00a0energy policy, but they\u2019ve also tried to dismantle every mechanism Australia has to reduce emissions and stem climate change.<br \/>\nUnder the former Labor Government, emissions dropped by more than 10 per cent, but since the Liberals took over, they\u2019ve risen year-on-year with no end in sight.<br \/>\nOnly a Shorten Labor Government will take real action on climate change, and reduce carbon pollution in line with our plan for a minimum of 50 per cent renewables by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050. We will also invest $10 billion in renewable energy projects and deliver rebates of $2,000 for households to buy energy-saving battery systems.<br \/>\nLabor\u2019s plan sets a floor on renewables but I have every confidence our suite of strong climate policies and huge investment in renewables will ensure we overshoot this target significantly.<br \/>\nRenewables are already an attractive and affordable energy option, but Labor\u2019s massive investment will reduce prices even further, making new fossil fuel investment increasingly unviable.<br \/>\nThis will catapult Australia into a new age of renewable energy which will reduce emissions, lower power prices and create tens of thousands of new jobs.<br \/>\nWith the global rise in renewables, coal will fall, and this will have an enormous impact on communities in our region. That\u2019s why Labor also focusses on affected communities \u2013 establishing a just transition authority to ensure no worker gets left behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I welcome the engagement of young Novocastrians in today\u2019s student strike for real action on climate change. I look forward to meeting student representatives and hearing their concerns directly. These students should be congratulated for getting active on the issues that matter. If more young people engaged in the political process, the Liberal Government mightn\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/03\/15\/sharon-claydon-climate-action-welcomed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sharon Claydon &#8211; CLIMATE ACTION WELCOMED&#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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925","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=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}