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"In just a few months we’ll be one full year into the tenure of the new federal
Labor government. The general feeling about Australia’s climate policies and
philosophy from around the world is that the ‘adults are back in charge’ – the
bumbling, delaying, denialist, coal-waving dinosaurs of the Coalition
government are history.
Due to the long lag in emissions data, it will still be quite some time until
we get a good picture of how climate-causing pollution actually changes under
eventually implemented policies of the government. Possibly not even until just
before the next election. What we can do now is get: (a) a good, evidence-based
feel for how big the task is, and (b) at least a vague idea of whether existing
policy is up to that task.
The Australian government environment department’s annual projections report
has served as a rough approximation of the ongoing impact (or lack of impact)
of climate policy in Australia.
Previous reports I’ve covered here at RenewEconomy show a litany of accounting
tricks being used to exaggerate future emissions reductions, alongside the
gradual correction of over-estimation of coal and gas and under-estimation of
wind and solar.
Labor’s first projections report breaks some of those narratives. It reveals
that the previous government may in fact have been recently over-egging
renewable projections as a way of distracting from their own failure to
accelerate renewable growth. Ditto for EVs. We already know that huge
adjustments to land-use data have been exploited to paint defensive
greenwashing narratives by the Coalition. This new report reveals how dire the
previous government’s failures were."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
