Labor has set up a clash with the Greens on climate change in a bid to assure voters it will not change its 43 per cent target to cut greenhouse gas emissions if it wins the election, insisting the Parliament would have to pass the goal or vote it down.
The Labor pledge is to introduce a bill to Parliament that specifies the 43 per cent cut in emissions by 2030 on the levels of 2005 and to refuse to accept changes by the Greens, with the lower house rejecting amendments to the target in the Senate. But with Greens leader Adam Bandt calling for a 75 per cent cut in emissions by that year, Prime Minister Scott Morrison claimed a Labor government would have to give in to the Greens on climate.“For Labor to legislate if they were to form government they would have to do that with the support of the Greens,” he said, while campaigning in the seat of Wentworth in eastern Sydney.
Mr Bowen rejected speculation the Labor target would rise to 48 per cent in the event the government was able to reach the upper range of its stated 30 to 35 per cent forecast., Australian National University professor Mark Howden said the number was in line with the agreement at the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow last month to cut emissions by 45 per cent by 2030 on the levels of 2010.
The modelling for the Labor policy, conducted by economics firm RepuTex, says the policy would create 64,000 direct and 540,000 indirect jobs by 2030 and triggered a claim from former ACTU president Jennie George inthat the figure was “so high as to make it unbelievable” because the multiplier effect was too great.Mr Bowen rejected that complaint and said the modelling applied a multiplier in each sector of the economy rather than across the board.
CroweDM micksfoley It’s hard to tell which party is the more looney of these two? Neither seem to understand that we don’t affect the climate and this whole assertion of climate change is a fraud for political left wing objectives. And money for those in power!! Chris Bowen? We’ll say no more😤
CroweDM micksfoley The greatest rort this century.... Climate change is a natural occurrence called Procession of the Equinoxes.
CroweDM micksfoley Wow they look scary!
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