Business council faces negative ad blitz over criticism of 45% emissions target

The Business Council of Australia will find itself the target of a negative advertising campaign for declaring that an emissions reduction target of 45% would wreck the Australian economy.

The Australia Institute will run an ad campaign debunking a
Business Council of Australia claim that a 45% emissions
reduction target is ‘economy-wrecking’. 

With Labor planning to go to the federal election with an emissions reduction target of 45%, and the Coalition spoiling for a partisan fight, the progressive thinktank the Australia Institute will invest campaign resources in debunking a claim from the BCA that the proposed target is “economy-wrecking”.

In public statements in support of the Coalition’s now dumped national energy guarantee, a policy that included an emissions reduction target of 26% by 2030, the BCA described that level of abatement as “workable” but characterised Labor’s 45% alternative as “economy wrecking”.

Read the story from The Guardian by Katharine Murphy- “Business council faces negative ad blitz over criticism of 45% emissions target.”