ATMOSPHERIC – GOVERNMENT POLICY – AUSTRALIA

PM clings to Paris target, RET

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Original article by Phillip Coorey
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 1 & 6 : 12-Sep-18

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has told broadcaster Alan Jones that the federal government will not abandon the Paris climate change targets, in spite of pressure from conservatives to do so. Morrison said that climate change is an incredibly important issue for nations in the Pacific region, with Morrison noting the region is very important to Australia in terms of strategic influence. The government has previously stated that abandoning the Paris targets could jeopardise a free trade agreement with the European Union. Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who has joined the Coalition’s backbench energy and environment committee, has called for the Renewable Energy Target to be scrapped immediately.

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AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY, THE AUSTRALIA INSTITUTE LIMITED, LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA

Emissions jump underestimated

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Original article by Kyle Mackey-Laws
The Canberra Times – Page: 5 : 15-May-18

Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions rose by 1.5 per cent in 2017, the third year in a row that emissions have increased. Bill Hare of Climate Analytics says Australia will struggle to meet its 2030 Paris climate pledge if the upward trend continues. The electricity sector reduced its emissions by 3.1 per cent in 2017, with the Hazelwood coal-fired power plant having closed in March. Labor’s climate spokesman Mark Butler says the accuracy of the federal government’s land clearing data is increasingly being questioned, with data on emissions from land use having indicated "inexplicable reductions" in emissions for some time.

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CLIMATE ANALYTICS, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY, THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY, AUSTRALIAN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INCORPORATED

Coal-fired power trade-off for new clean energy target

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Original article by Simon Benson
The Australian – Page: 4 : 7-Aug-17

With the Federal Government yet to take its amended energy policy to the Coalition partyroom, there are promising signs that gas prices are starting to come down. The Government has been able to get the Council of Australian Governments to agree to all but one of the Finkel energy review’s 50 recommendations, namely that of a clean energy target. It is believed that Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull are willing to give a commitment to investing in "clean coal"-fired power plants in order to get the partyroom to approve a CET.

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COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENTS, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET, AUSTRALIAN ENERGY MARKET OPERATOR LIMITED