Climate policy is no longer something that can be papered over,or worked around, or ignored, or used as a political attack weaponSurely Australia can use this Paris climate agreement to finally end the barren,wasted years of climate policy war.
There’s already an uneasy ceasefire, a letup in the intellect-numbing slogans. Labor is promising some kind of emissions trading scheme and a relatively ambitious renewable energy target – but no details yet lest it once again feel the barrage of a full bore axe-the-tax scare campaign. Under the sceptical gaze of his party’s tough right, or Malcolm Turnbull is also unwilling to even tip at the policy changes he and his minister Greg Hunt appear to be planning when they revise Australia’s policy after the election.
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Source: theguardian.com