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New – yet unlikely - climate champions?

The South Australian Liberal Opposition has adopted the best greenhouse emission reduction target of any major party at state or federal level in Australia.

Strange but true. Liberal Opposition Shadow Minister for the Environment Iain Evans announced the plan to reduce emissions by 20% by 2020 and 60% by 2050.

But the announcement came just as Mike Rann formally put the election campaign into full swing so the Liberals plan got kind of swamped and hardly rated a mention in the Australian media.

While the South Australian Labor Government matched the 60% target for 2050 they have not committed to the intermediate target. Of course it is the intermediate target that is the important one.

Its easy to have a target for 2050 which is so far away it is the never never for must politicians - but the 2020 target would force real action to reduce emissions now.

Here in NSW, the Labor Government has also committed to a 60% reduction by 2050, but only has only agreed to reduce emissions to 2000 levels by 2025.

So while the SA Liberal are promising to cut emission by 20% over the next 15 years, the NSW Government has a 0% target for 5 years later!

Hardly a great legacy from the supposedly greenhouse-aware former Premier Bob Carr!

 

 

 

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