{"id":36041,"date":"2025-11-15T11:37:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T00:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=36041"},"modified":"2025-11-15T11:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T00:37:58","slug":"greens-rattenbury-to-canberra-liberals-ditching-climate-action-a-path-to-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/11\/15\/greens-rattenbury-to-canberra-liberals-ditching-climate-action-a-path-to-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens’ Rattenbury to Canberra Liberals: Ditching climate action a path to failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As the Liberal Party flounders headfirst into electoral oblivion with their announcement to ditch the goal of reaching net-zero emissions to protect our planet, the Canberra Liberals have been mincing words on their stance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leader of the ACT Greens and Greens Climate Spokesperson Shane Rattenbury said the Canberra Liberals have a lot to answer for if they want to be taken seriously by Canberrans looking for real climate leadership.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shane Rattenbury, Leader of the ACT Greens:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday\u2019s announcement from the Federal Parliamentary Liberal Party is a bad omen for the direction of the Canberra Liberals\u2014because the fact of the matter is that the climate-sceptic wing in their federal party are feeling emboldened by Donald Trump\u2019s cowboy approach to international climate politics, and they want to replicate it right here in Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSussan Ley\u2019s decision to ditch a policy of net-zero emissions in Australia isn\u2019t just a policy for the Federal Liberals, it\u2019s a stance we\u2019ve seen the Canberra Liberals refuse to condemn\u2014with their new leader and their new candidate for the Senate failing to rule out the idea of abandoning net-zero policies in this city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo put it bluntly, this is criminal. For a party wondering why they\u2019re not being taken seriously by the electorate in Canberra, they need to have a serious look at their refusal to acknowledge the real world financial, environmental and social impacts of climate change on people who live in Canberra and around the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLast election, the Canberra Liberals went to the electorate with a policy of ditching the Greens ban on fossil fuel gas connections and ditching the Greens phase-out of fossil-fuel cars. The question is: will they continue to resist the renewable energy revolution?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt the same time, local Labor went to the election with no new climate policies and over the past year, we\u2019ve seen the consequences\u2014with Canberra rolling backwards on our emissions reduction targets \u2013 targets the Greens fought hard to secure and deliver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRight now, we need real accountability to the actions of this government, and we need real climate action. And it seems that it will be up to the Greens to do this job while the Labor Party stalls and the Liberals flounder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the Liberal Party flounders headfirst into electoral oblivion with their announcement to ditch the goal of reaching net-zero emissions to protect our planet, the Canberra Liberals have been mincing words on their stance. Leader of the ACT Greens and Greens Climate Spokesperson Shane Rattenbury said the Canberra Liberals have a lot to answer for … Continue reading “Greens’ Rattenbury to Canberra Liberals: Ditching climate action a path to failure”<\/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-36041","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\/36041","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=36041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36042,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36041\/revisions\/36042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}