If the Labor Party dumps its current target of 45 percent emissions reduction by 2030, they will lose whatever credibility they have left on the climate crisis and prove that they\u2019ve learnt all the wrong lessons from the election, said Leader of the Australian Greens Dr Richard Di Natale.
\n\u201cQueensland and New South Wales are burning, our firefighters and emergency responders on the ground are screaming out for support and Labor\u2019s response is to join the climate deniers in the Liberals,\u201d Di Natale said.
\n\u201cWithout a proper 2030 emissions reduction target and a plan to phase out coal, Labor will have lost whatever remaining credibility it has on the climate crisis.
\n\u201cWe\u2019re in a climate emergency and Labor is caving in to the coal, oil and gas lobby. And if they think voters are going to reward them for that, they\u2019ve taken all the wrong lessons from the election.\u201d
\n\u201cThere are two kinds of climate denial. There\u2019s refusing to accept the science is real and there\u2019s refusing to do what the science requires. Delay is just another form of denial and I hope Labor doesn\u2019t join the Liberals by denying the need for urgent action by 2030,\u201d said Greens Climate Change Spokesperson Adam Bandt MP.
\n\u201cThe Greens are holding the Coalition climate criminals to account and we\u2019d like Labor\u2019s help.\u201d
\n\u201cShort-term targets matter. The world\u2019s scientists have told us that unless we drastically cut pollution, we could hit the dangerous 1.5 degree tipping point by as early as 2030.\u201d
\n\u201cWhen you\u2019re heading towards a cliff, deciding to go over the edge and hoping you\u2018ll stop before you hit the bottom isn\u2019t a climate policy, it\u2019s a death sentence,\u201d Bandt said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If the Labor Party dumps its current target of 45 percent emissions reduction by 2030, they will lose whatever credibility they have left on the climate crisis and prove that they\u2019ve learnt all the wrong lessons from the election, said Leader of the Australian Greens Dr Richard Di Natale. \u201cQueensland and New South Wales are … Continue reading “If Labor abandons 2030 emissions targets, it abandons climate science”<\/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-3657","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\/3657","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=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}