Do more to address climate change, government told at Labor conference

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Delegates called on the Albanese government to unleash spending on renewable energy that matches subsidies in the US and Europe worth up to 3 per cent of GDP.

While the motions do not force ministers to change policy, they reveal the pressure from Labor branches for federal cabinet ministers to develop new ways to cut emissions.

Michael O’Connor, a forestry union official who is now national secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining And Energy Union’s manufacturing division, said native forest logging should continue. The debate ended with a motion agreed by all sides to “update” the national forests policy, but this stopped short of committing to rewrite the entire policy and thwarted hopes by the Labor Environment Action Network for a commitment to phase out native forest logging.

 

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