Liberals abandon net zero while Labor struggles to deliver it
For all the sound and fury, the decision to ditch the target is largely symbolic and carries no real weight when it comes to Australia’s climate trajectory which remains dictated by the Labor majority.
Too much political oxygen in Canberra was wasted this week on the Liberal Party’s internal farce over its energy policy, which ended with Sussan Ley joining her National Party comrades in abandoning net zero.
The Liberals’ new policy – effectively a carbon copy of the Nationals’ – would dismantle most of the Albanese Labor government’s emissions reduction measures and repeal the current target to reach 82 per cent renewables by 2030.
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