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| An anti-coal soy latte. If you see one, please alert authorities. |
The Minister for Environment and Energy, Josh Frydenberg,
was asked in question time by Greens MP Adam Bandt about a US government report
delivered in at the Marrakech climate talks that warned, amongst other things,
of a 1.5m rise in sea levels by 2050 if greenhouse emissions continued at
current levels.
Mr Frydenberg responded by claiming that Australia had an
“ambitious” climate target for 2030 and had been praised “for innovation” and
its work on carbon capture and storage at the recent climate talks in
Marrakech.
“It it is okay for the member for Melbourne to put his
sandals up on the seat, sip his soy latte, sit in the streets of Brunswick and
say that it is the end of coal,” but coal would continue to be part of the mix
for decades to come, Mr Frydenberg said.
A few hours later, Canada announced it would phase out
traditional coal fired generation by 2030 as part of its “vision for a clean
growth economy”. The UK is phasing out coal by 2023, and France is phasing out
coal too, although it has taken a rain check on that idea because one third of
its nuclear fleet are sidelined by safety concerns.
Read Giles Parkinson’s story in RenewEconomy - “Climate conspiracy grips Senate as Coalition attacks latte-sipping opponents of coal.”
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