Berejiklian government creates new climate change division in the public service

The Berejiklian government has further staked its commitment to tackling climate change by setting up a new division in the public sector dedicated to developing policy on energy and climate change.

Gladys Berejiklian at a Liberal Party rally at Sydney Olympic Park on April 28.

The division - called the Energy, Climate Change and Sustainability Division - will form part of the mega-agency of Planning, Industry and Environment, led by Minister Rob Stokes.

Read the story from The Sydney Morning Herald by Lisa Visentin - “Berejiklian government creates new climate change division in the public service."

Deadlock in Parliament follows Turnbull victory on energy

Labor is holding out against a swift decision on the carbon target for the National Energy Guarantee, in a new stand-off that threatens to stymie a national deal on energy and climate change.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Energy Minister Josh
Frydenberg claimed victory in the Coalition party room
on the National Energy Guarantee.

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten accused the federal government of devising a “Frankenstein’s monster of a policy” that did not do enough to tackle global warming, signalling a fight in Parliament and at the next election on the scale of the cuts to greenhouse gas emissions.

The Labor stance means the Turnbull government could struggle to pass its plan in Federal Parliament while facing demands from states and territories that could stall the National Energy Guarantee, the mechanism meant to cut emissions and increase reliability.

Read the story from The Age  by David Crowe - “Deadlock in Parliament follows Turnbull victory on energy.”