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Labor lowers 2030 target to 43 per cent, to blunt Morrison scare campaign

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Shadow Minister for Climate Change Chris Bowen. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas)
Shadow Minister for Climate Change Chris Bowen. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas)

Labor to take a 43 per cent emissions target to the next federal election, and a paired back policy platform designed to blunt Morrison scare campaign.

The net cost of using renewables to hit Australia’s climate target? Nothing

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Our modelling shows renewable energy can help hit Australia’s emissions reduction target of 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2030 effectively for free.

Cutting ARENA would devastate clean energy research

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A supplied image obtained Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016 of the newly completed Broken Hill solar plant. Constructed by energy providers AGL and solar developer First Solar, newly completed plants covering 390 hectares at Nyngan and Broken Hill will collectively produce 155 megawatts of electricity and power more than 50,000 homes. The sites are the largest and second largest solar plants in Australia. Federal environment minister Greg Hunt joined NSW energy minister Anthony Roberts and executives from AGL, First Solar and ARENA at the opening of the Nyngan solar plant on Wednesday morning. (AAP Image/Australian Renewable Energy Agency) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Cutting funding to ARENA, which is both fulfilling Australia’s climate obligations and driving innovation and energy affordability, would be a tragic error.

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