{"id":29840,"date":"2019-04-29T07:48:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T21:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=29840"},"modified":"2024-09-05T09:57:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T00:27:24","slug":"climate-scorecard-election-mb1033","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/climate-scorecard-election-mb1033\/","title":{"rendered":"Coalition Flunks Climate Election Scorecard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_29841\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29841\" class=\"size-large wp-image-29841\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/climate-election-australia-1024x585.jpg\" alt=\"Climate election Australia\" width=\"1024\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/climate-election-australia-1024x585.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/climate-election-australia-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/climate-election-australia-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/climate-election-australia.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: ACF<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With issues relating to climate change being at the forefront of many Australian voters&#8217; minds this Federal election, how do the three major parties compare?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Australian Conservation Foundation&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acf.org.au\/scorecard_2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Climate Election Scorecard<\/a> results are based on measurements of the policies of the Coalition, Labor and the Greens against 50 tests that have been grouped under four main areas &#8211; boosting renewables, phasing out coal power, stopping Adani and protecting nature.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the three parties scored overall<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Liberal \/ National Coalition &#8211; 4%<\/li>\n<li>Labor &#8211; 56%<\/li>\n<li>The Greens &#8211; 99%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ramping Up Renewables<\/h2>\n<p>The Coalition scored &#8220;very poor&#8221; here in part due to &#8220;piecemeal&#8221; promises and a lack of policies on large scale wind and solar power. Labor was rated &#8220;fairly good&#8221;, with its 50% renewables by 2030 commitment and solar energy programs mentioned; while the Greens were considered &#8220;very good&#8221; for its goal of 100% renewables by 2030 and net zero climate pollution by 2040.<\/p>\n<h2>Ditch Burning Coal<\/h2>\n<p>Again the Coalition scored very poor with ACF accusing it of supporting burning more of the stuff. Labor was considered &#8220;fairly weak&#8221; on this front as its policies would not see coal power phased out quickly enough. The Greens get a tick for supporting a ban on all new projects and phasing out burning coal for electricity generation by 2030.<\/p>\n<h2>Stopping Adani<\/h2>\n<p>Very poor for the Coalition again given its support for Galilee Basin project\/s and the ALP is also judged harshly for its &#8220;on the fence&#8221; approach. No surprises that the Greens scored highly for its commitment to banning all new coal mines, including Adani&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<h2>General Environmental Protection<\/h2>\n<p>The Coalition gets a bit of a boost here to just &#8220;poor&#8221; for its policies and funding. Labor gets a &#8220;fairly good&#8221; for its promised new laws, but ACF says there&#8217;s insufficient funding for nature restoration or wildlife recovery. The Greens get a &#8220;very good&#8221; for their strong laws, the creation of an independent science-based watchdog and a significant boost to related funding.<\/p>\n<p>The summary above barely scratches the surface of the report. As mentioned, all parties&#8217; policies were scored against 50 different elements and you can review all these along with scores for each and justifications <a href=\"https:\/\/acf.org.au\/scorecard-background\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. Scorecards for independents and minor parties <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acf.org.au\/acf_releases_election_scorecard_of_parties_climate_and_nature_policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">can be viewed here.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If parties want to win the votes of the huge numbers of Australians demanding stronger and more responsible climate action then they will need to stump up plans to accelerate the transition to clean energy, end coal burning and stop the Adani mine,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acf.org.au\/this_is_the_climate_election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> ACF\u2019s Chief Executive Officer, Kelly O\u2019Shanassy earlier this month. \u201cClimate damage is here now. This election must be a turning point for climate action.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With issues relating to climate change being at the forefront of many Australian voters&#8217; minds this Federal election, how do the three major parties compare?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":29841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Coalition Flunks Climate Election Scorecard - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With issues relating to climate change being at the forefront of many Australian voters&#039; 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