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he Climate Institute described today’s Energy White Paper as a
wilfully deluded document, whose recommendations sidestep the challenges and
opportunities facing our energy sector in a world of cleaner, smarter energy
systems.
“This Energy White Paper envisages an Australia clinging on
to its old, dumb and dirty energy sector rather than driving a switch to
modern, smart and clean energy,” said John Connor, CEO, The Climate Institute.
“This White Paper is deeply flawed because of its reliance
on an international policy scenario that would take global warming to around
4°C above pre-industrial levels. By doing so it makes the same dangerous error
the government made in its post-2020 Emissions Reduction Target Issues Paper.
Both ignore the internationally agreed goal of avoiding what would be a
disastrous and costly 2°C of warming.”
The Climate Institute
- “Energy White Paper mostly a fantasy of climate ignorance” – says, “There’s
an extraordinary gap between the government’s rhetoric on improving investment
in energy and wilfully ignoring the biggest deterrent to investment –
uncertainty about Australia’s long-term plan to decarbonise.”
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