The Coalition, like the ALP, pays lip service to cutting carbon emissions and matches the ALP efforts on renewable energy.
Quote:....the creation of a $2.55 billion (over the first four years) Emissions Reduction Fund, additional funding for one million solar homes by 2020, clean energy hubs, solar towns and solar schools, geothermal projects, studies into algal synthesis and the planting of 20 million trees.
Tony Abbott is a populist and an opportunist, but the Coalition Climate Change policy is there for everybody to see. For those who think otherwise - It doesn't say that AGW is a scam either.
It will be interesting to see if Tony Abbott can survive, given that at current trends, his percentage approval rating will be something like minus 25% by the next election.
The planting of 20 million trees is a red herring. Unless we can achieve realistic renewable energy targets worldwide, then those trees will become net emitters of carbon in the future.
Like everything else, the place to start with building our renewable energy infrastructure is at home.
It will be interesting to see if the LIbs demolish the Clean energy legislation in its entirety. It would cost them too much to do that. The problem is that many industries will be reaping the benefits by next year. The easiest thing that they could do would be to price carbon at $5 per tonne.