Australia has signed the Paris agreement to limit global warming to 2 degrees. Simple modelling by the Climate Institute in its report "A Switch in Time" shows that Australia's electricity sector needs a policy framework, that ensures existing high carbon generators have an urgent exit timeline to 2035, and be replaced with zero or near-zero emission energy.
Policy should include adjustments for workers and communities and energy users to minimize hardship. To achieve our climate goals, and encourage carbon efficiency, policy also needs a real carbon price that scales up. The two old parties contending for this federal election have no such explicit plans or policies. Both parties plan to enable the expansion of both coal and gas industries and their exports.
Gas, be it ever so abundant, has proven not to be a safe bridge to a zero emissions electricity sector. De-carbonization and Carbon Price are dirty words for the carbon dirty industries and their supporters. The problem is that both ALP and LNP have behavior and policies that lack carbon credibility. The mass media are helping to hide these failures to provide timely and comprehensive plans for a safe climate future. The media should be pushing the parties to this most urgent task as the first priority in this federal election. We should be pushing the media, the politicians and their parties harder than thought possible.
Only the Australian Greens Party has a credible plan designed for Australia to achieve its globally committed climate goal. - http://greens.org.au/renew
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