A Shorten Labor Government will work with Australia\u2019s transport sector to cut vehicle emissions, boost adoption of electric vehicles and help Australians save on their petrol bills.
\nAustralia needs real action on climate change \u2013 not the chaos and division of the Liberals. And real action on climate change means a plan to reduce pollution in the transport sector while saving money for motorists.
\nTransport emissions make up almost 20 per cent of Australia\u2019s emissions and are a fast growing source of pollution
\nCleaner cars and transport aren\u2019t just good for the environment \u2013 they are cheaper to run. But Australia lags behind our competitor countries, whether it\u2019s in electric vehicle take-up, or vehicle fuel efficiency. We have ten times lower electric vehicle take-up than the global average, and we\u2019re at risk of being left behind.
\nThat\u2019s why Labor will introduce Australia\u2019s first National Electric Vehicle (EV) policy \u2013 building the local industry, generating more local jobs, and helping consumers make the switch.
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As part of our focus on cleaner and cheaper transportation, Labor will also work with industry to introduce vehicle emissions standards, to save Australian motorists hundreds of dollars each year at the bowser while driving down pollution on our roads. A Shorten Labor Government will work with Australia\u2019s transport sector to cut vehicle emissions, boost adoption of electric vehicles and help Australians save on their petrol bills. Australia needs real action on climate change \u2013 not the chaos and division of the Liberals. And real action on climate change means a plan to reduce pollution … Continue reading “A STRATEGY FOR A CLEANER TRANSPORT FUTURE”<\/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-2112","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\/2112","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=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAustralia is now one of the only developed nations without vehicle emissions standards in place. As a result, motorists will pay as much as $500 each year more at the bowser than they should be, as well as seeing pollution on our roads sky-rocket.
\nLabor will consult on the timeline and coverage of vehicle emission standards to ensure consumers are made significantly better off, and aim to phase-in standards of 105g CO2\/km for light vehicles, which is consistent with Climate Change Authority advice.
\nThese are sensible standards which will bring Australia\u2019s cars into line with those in the US, which has a similar car fleet to ours, but won\u2019t be as stringent as those operating in the EU.
\nThese standards will be applied to car retailers to meet average emissions standards, rather than imposing blanket mandatory standards on manufacturers. This will allow retailers to meet the standards by offsetting high emissions car sales with low or zero emissions car sales \u2013 such as electric vehicles.
\nIn addition, Labor will also develop a Low Emission Transport Strategy to inform future policy development across transport more broadly, including maritime, aviation, rail and heavy vehicles. We\u2019ll develop a Bioenergy Strategy, that will see more clean fuels on our roads and more jobs on our regions. These policies will be complemented by our already announced Hydrogen Plan.
\nLabor also has an electric vehicle innovation and manufacturing strategy and will work with industry to create new job opportunities with the transition.
\nAfter six years of chaos, uncertainty and rising pollution under the Liberals, Australians need stability and certainty on climate change policy \u2013 that\u2019s what our plan delivers.
\nA Shorten Labor Government will reduce pollution, invest in renewable energy and take real action on climate change \u2013 to ensure we hand on a better deal to the next generation.
\nMore information is available at \u00a0https:\/\/www.alp.org.au\/climate_change_action_plan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"