Even Albo admits it - More coal exportsto reduce gl9bal emissions, page-2

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Originally posted by ktrianta: ↑

When climate change cultist Albo admits it, it must be true. Obviously the logical extension to his argument is that to reduce global emissions, then Australia should do everything in its power to export more of our high quality coal to displace lower quality resources from elsewhere. Accordingly we need to encourage and incentivise our coal industry to sell more coal to reduce global emissions.

Surely even the resident catastrophic climate changers on hotcopper would have to agree with Albo.

As reported this morning from the Australian.

The Greens’ push to ban new coal and gas projects would do nothing to lower global emissions – and could potentially increase them – as Australia’s trading partners would source lower-quality resources from other countries, according to Anthony Albanese.

Ahead of a parliamentary stoush on the government’s climate change bill next week, the Prime Minister said the Greens had no detail on how to reach their 75 per cent by 2030 emissions reduction target and “the idea that you just shut things down” was not the way to build consensus on taking action on the issue.

Mr Albanese said Labor’s position would remain that new coal and gas projects could proceed if they stacked up financially and passed environmental approvals, with the future of the industry to be dependent on international demand.

“Policies that would just result in a replacement of Australian resources with resources that are less clean from other countries would lead to an increase in global emissions, not a decrease,” Mr Albanese told The Australian. “The Greens’ position is aimed at politics rather than what’s necessary, which is a recognition that Australia needs to do its part but doing its part is ensuring that the global emissions decrease.

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Great to see Albanese being a realist and looking for the smoothest easiest transition to net zero emissions.

Note for all the climate deniers.

Australia is progressing toward net zero emissions by 2050. The only question is how we do it in the most efficient way.

A positive move. Labor doing what they said they'd do prior to the election. Working with other parties instead of against them.

Definitely justifying the reason to sack the COALition at the last election.
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