Oz Treasurer Wants Vague Net-ZeroTarget For 2050 - Maybe - But That's Way Too Radical For LNP
The federal resources minister, Keith Pitt, has pushed back against Josh Frydenberg after the treasurer made the case for the government signing up to net zero emissions, declaring resources industry jobs were more important than “demands from foreign countries or the United Nations”.
The Queensland National told Guardian Australia anyone could front-run the government’s internal deliberations on climate policy ahead of the Cop26 summit in Glasgow but “there’s currently no proposal nor agreement”. “Everyone’s entitled to float a boat and I’ll be putting the jobs of the more than one million Australians employed directly and indirectly in the Australian resources sector well in front of any demands from foreign countries or the United Nations secretariat,” Pitt said.
With metropolitan Liberals increasingly concerned the National party is dictating the terms of the government’s climate policy, Frydenberg made a significant public intervention on Friday, articulating the economic case for Australia to commit to net zero emissions by 2050.
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Joyce, who is negotiating with Scott Morrison about the landing point, said on Friday the Nationals wanted to make sure “that we keep people in central Queensland in a job”. “It’s very important to those in the blue-collar jobs in central Queensland that they’re able to pay for their house, pay for their car, keep themselves in the life that they’ve worked very hard for,” the deputy prime minister said. Joyce was asked whether or not he supported the target, and he stepped around the question.
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/25/australian-jobs-more-important-than-net-zero-nationals-minister-says