Bushfires highlight need for urgent climate action and 'a real target', Anthony Albanese says

Labor has to take the initiative in defending Australia against the dangers of climate change because the summer of catastrophe has highlighted our national vulnerability and because business and the states are now demanding national leadership, according to Anthony Albanese.

Anthony Albanese - net-zero target by 2050.

As revealed by Guardian Australia, the Labor leader will use a speech to a progressive thinktank on Friday to commit the ALP to adopting a net-zero target by 2050 if it wins the next federal election, without the use of carryover credits from the Kyoto period.

While Scott Morrison is holding off from making a commitment to carbon neutrality by 2050, partly because of an internal brawl within the Coalition and partly because the prime minister says Australia should not sign up to targets in the absence of costings, Albanese will say on Friday that adopting net-zero “should be as non-controversial in Australia as it is in most nations”.

Read the story from The Guardian by Katharine Murphy - “Bushfires highlight need for urgent climate action and 'a real target', Anthony Albanese says.”