Climate Council Media Release
The Nationals’ decision to ditch the net zero position it signed up to in 2021 as part of the Coalition will be costly for regional communities and farmers being hit by worsening climate disasters.
Climate Council CEO Amanda McKenzie said: “Abandoning net zero means abandoning a safer future for Australians. It means worsening climate-driven floods, fires and heatwaves. Communities will pay a high price, particularly in the regions.”
Climate Council Research shows abandoning net zero would:
- Reduce economic output by $135-423 billion by 2063, with workers hampered by extreme heat.
- Increase Australian Government spending on disaster recovery up to 7 times by 2090
- Make more than 1.3 million Australian homes (8.8%) likely uninsurable by 2100
- Double freight costs for regional communities in WA, NT And Qld
- Dent property values by more than half a trillion dollars by 2050
Ms McKenzie said, “This is about more than just chaos in the Coalition. In the real world, a net zero backflip aligns with more than 3°C of global heating that would cost farmers and regional towns billions of dollars in damage. The Nationals must explain how they’ll pay for the soaring insurance premiums, recovery bills and freight costs when escalating disasters strike regional communities.
“The Nationals aren’t standing up for the bush, or farmers – they are selling them out. While the Coalition flounders over climate basics we should focus on the opportunity to strengthen our national environment law – the EPBC Act.
“The Government’s proposed reforms have a number of gaping problems: they fail to address climate pollution – the biggest threat to the environment; they will undermine our climate progress by denying the government power to limit climate pollution from massive fossil fuel projects; and they may speed up fossil fuel project approvals despite the harm they cause. Labor has a simple choice: partner with the climate wreckers, or stand with the millions of Australians who want our wildlife and the environment protected from climate harm.”
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Just a hypothetical:
So I’m a farmer who’s property and income becomes affected by the policy of “no net zero”.
Would I at some time in the future be able to sue any government or party that pursued that policy, because of it’s effects on my livelyhood?
Could “big oil” also be successfully sued?
One look at David Bigproud and you can see the lights are on, but nobody’s home.4% of the National vote, and you are bound to get morons like this.No wonder Wombat Joyce is pissed off.He resembles a ferret in search of a burrow.
If by “regional areas” you mean anything owned by Gina then the Gnats will be all over that like blowflies on shit. Outside of that, when an election looms they suddenly remember the little people who aren’t named Gina.
Oh yes, it seems Gina has latched onto Paween, hedging her bets I reckon:
https://www.smh.com.au/cbd/pauline-hanson-gina-rinehart-sighted-at-trump-s-halloween-party-20251103-p5n7be.html
Having read the 5 points made by the “Climate Council Research” team, I’d ask, will the path currently being take by our federal and state governments, avoid all this?
To illustrate the point that Littleproud has no idea what he’s talking about, read the article by Graham Readfearn in today’s Guardian.What this country desperately needs is a serious opposition to make a slippery Labor accountable,instead we have a pack of self absorbed halfwits and imbeciles who are flat out rushing towards oblivion.Some would say that’s a good job,but all that’s happening is a Labor government continuing the pretence of action.
Be great if he made it clear it is the totally discredited, business-as-usual- Mining Industry friendly, fake version of Net Zero that the ever-closer to Pauline Hanson, “One-Nationals” are getting their knickers in a twist about. Even better if our mainstream media made that clear.