With its Emissions Reduction Plan released last week, the government is promising unprecedented control over every aspect of your life.
How you move. What you eat. Where you live. How you heat your home.
It is little short of a revolution. Between its emissions plan and next year’s Budget, which will also be about climate change, future governments of this country will have more to say about everything.
The problem is that existing policies already have this country firmly on track to deliver emissions targets.
In both its draft and final reports, the Climate Change Commission said current policies and a $50 carbon price will be enough to deliver net zero emissions in 2050. Its analysis did not show undue reliance on removals by exotic trees, although Ministers and officials have repeatedly made misleading statements about the Commission’s findings.
Today’s carbon price is $65. So we are ahead…
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