The ALP is melting down over climate policy, and Anthony Albanese is missing in action.
\n\u201cThe Government\u2019s climate policy is shockingly weak, and rather than showing leadership, Labor looks like they\u2019re about to join them. At a time when we need to be declaring a climate emergency, WA Labor is declaring climate surrender,\u201d said Leader of the Australian Greens Dr Richard Di Natale.
\n\u201cWA Labor\u2019s decision to dump the emissions targets that Labor just took to the federal election and replace them with the Coalition\u2019s shockingly weak targets follows Queensland Labor\u2019s support for Adani and full throated attack on climate protesters. Anthony Albanese\u2019s inability to reign them in shows just how adrift the Labor Party has become and why the Greens are now the real opposition.
\n\u201cLabor has changed their climate policy half a dozen times in recent years and with every change its got weaker. With big donations from the coal, oil and gas lobby continuing to flow, Albo out to lunch and the ALP adrift at sea, it\u2019s only the Greens who are prepared to take the fight up to this rotten government.
\n\u201cWhere is Albo, and when is he going to tell us what Labor\u2019s climate policy is?\u201d
\n\u201cIt looks like Labor and the Liberals are now on a unity ticket in backing Tony Abbott\u2019s measly emissions targets, which are not consistent with global warming staying below two degrees,\u201d said Greens Climate Change Spokesperson Adam Bandt MP.
\n\u201cThe Greens are fighting the Liberals\u2019 climate denialism, but it looks like Labor won\u2019t be with us.
\n\u201cAnthony Albanese needs to get his colleagues on the same page, override the WA Labor party and help the Greens fight for emissions cuts consistent with the Paris \u2018two degree\u2019 goals, because otherwise we\u2019re on track for climate disaster and Labor\u2019s climate credibility is shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The ALP is melting down over climate policy, and Anthony Albanese is missing in action. \u201cThe Government\u2019s climate policy is shockingly weak, and rather than showing leadership, Labor looks like they\u2019re about to join them. At a time when we need to be declaring a climate emergency, WA Labor is declaring climate surrender,\u201d said Leader … Continue reading “Labor is in climate chaos. Where's Albo?”<\/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-3562","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\/3562","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=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}