The approach inserts the higher figure into Australia’s contribution at Glasgow at a time when the Nationals and some Liberals oppose making it a formal target,while Labor and the Greens dismiss the forecast on the grounds it has no force.
“When we go to Glasgow,we’ll be able to say that our projections,which are included in our nationally determined contribution,will see emissions reduce,we expect,by 35 per cent by 2030,” Mr Morrison told Parliament on Wednesday.
“Australians know what our policies are,they know what they’re designed to achieve,they know what they have met,they know how those targets have been beaten and they know how we plan to get there.”
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Labor leader Anthony Albanese intensified his attack on the government on Wednesday by calling for the release of confidential modelling that underpinned the shift in federal policy on Tuesday to endorse a net zero emissions target for 2050.
While Mr Morrison said the modelling would be released in the coming weeks,Mr Albanese mocked the Prime Minister’s claims for the policy by interjecting:“You’re so proud of it you’re hiding it.”
Labor also targeted Nationals leader and Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce by asking whether he had signed up to the net zero policy without seeing the modelling – a question he declined to answer directly.