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| Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and Minister Lily D'Ambrosio promise net zero emissons by 2050. |
It would mean no more burning coal for power in the Latrobe
Valley and a big shift in how business operates and people run their homes.
Meeting the target – which Mr Andrews promised standing
alongside dozens of children from Mill Park Heights Primary - would require a
dramatic escalation in clean electricity generation and a transformation in
Victoria's homes to make them more efficient including, for example, widespread
use of solar panels linked to at-home battery storage.
Read Adam Morton and Josh Gordon’s story in the Melbourne Age - “Victoria to stop pumping out carbon dioxide by 2050, Premier Daniel Andrews promises.”
(A bold claim that
can only be met if something happens today, not tomorrow, to set in train the
massive cuts needed in Victoria’s carbon emission. Already, only days after the
announcement, we off the pace and nothing tangible has been done to achieve
this ambitious goal. Rhetoric and promises will not achieve anything – the damage
caused to our atmosphere by carbon dioxide emissions never rests and if we are
to counteract it in any successful way, then we too can never rest and that
means a wholesale change in our way of living, putting public ahead of private
in every instance – Robert McLean).
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