Staying with Andrew Bragg, the Coalition net zero advocate is emphasising Australia remaining in the Paris Agreement, despite no clear path for a Coalition government to bring down emissions.
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“There’s… a commitment to getting carbon emissions down, and that is going to be done through the Paris Agreement,” Bragg told 2GB. “I think it’s going to enforce some important discipline on the Liberal Party because you’re not able to backtrack on the emissions targets that you inherit.”
“I look forward to our setting ambitious emissions reduction targets, I think that’s really important,” he said.
Challenged on the contradiction of scrapping mandated climate targets while saying emissions would come down, Bragg said: “I don’t understand the language of ditching net zero. I mean, net zero is in the Paris Agreement.
“As our statement said last week, net zero would be an outcome of our work, and if it wasn’t, then you wouldn’t be in the Paris Agreement.”
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