Posts Tagged ‘liberals’
In the lead up to the election, the Climate Institute has relaunched the Pollute-O-Meter, a neat little site that tracks the climate policies of each of the major parties. As well as providing an indication of the effectiveness of each party’s approach to reducing emissions, it also includes a simple comparison of how each party is supporting emissions reduction in three key areas: limiting and reducing pollution, making companies responsible for pollution they cause and reducing the cost of clean energy.
And the winner is? Well, not the environment if the Pollute-O-Meter is to be believed. Whilst the Greens provide some hope, the policies offered up by the Libs and Labor still see us increasing our national emissions significantly by 2020. Given the recent preference deal brokered between Labor and the Greens though, if Labor were to hang on to power on August 21 it does raise the fascinating prospect of having to reconcile the best and the worst of our national climate policy.