Malcolm Turnbull says Liberals' struggles with climate denial are hurting Australia

Former prime minister Malcolm
Turnbull has slammed the Liberals’
 lack of climate policy.

Malcolm Turnbull says Australia will struggle to meet its Paris emissions target without rapid decarbonisation of the energy sector, and he says the Liberal party’s continuing failure to develop a coherent climate and energy policy is costing the country much-needed new investment in power generation.

In a wide-ranging interview with Guardian Australia’s politics live podcast ahead of the publication of his memoir next year, the former prime minister said the Liberal party had struggled with climate change denialism since 2007 because climate change had morphed into an issue of “identity” rather than fact.

Read the story from The Guardian by Katharine Murphy - “Malcolm Turnbull says Liberals' struggles with climate denial are hurting Australia.”