Labor and Coalition Lock Horns Over Australia’s 2030 Carbon Emission Targets

Published on June 11, 2024

The Labor government and Coalition have got into a heated debate over Australia’s carbon emission targets for 2030. Last week, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton revealed that the Coalition wanted to abolish the Labor government’s target to reduce emissions by 43 percent from 2005 levels by the end of this decade if it won the next federal election. Mr. Dutton said Labor was unlikely to achieve its target while stating the potential impacts of Labor’s decarbonisation plan on the economy. “We’re not going to destroy agriculture. We’re not going to stifle investment,” he told The Weekend Australian. “We’re already seeing investment being withdrawn. We’re not going to create sovereign risk with our export partners, as Labor is doing with Japan and Korea.”...

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