{"id":4262,"date":"2014-11-17T13:29:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T02:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=4262"},"modified":"2017-10-25T09:46:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T23:16:24","slug":"australian-leaders-lurch-step-renewables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/australian-leaders-lurch-step-renewables\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian leaders lurch further out of step on renewables"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4264\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/abbott-renewables.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4264\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4264\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/abbott-renewables.jpg\" alt=\"abbott and renewables\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abbott wants to stand up for poor, downtrodden, powerless coal. It&#8217;s good for humanity don&#8217;t you know. Unlike that nasty renewable stuff.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A very significant week in Australian renewable energy politics with the historic agreement between China and the United States on reducing emissions at the recent APEC summit in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Significant for Australia because the ideological campaign against renewables (let\u2019s call it for what it is) used to be heavily based around the fact that we were the leaders in cutting emissions while the rest of the world waited. The argument went that by taking such a leadership role, our industry was suffering.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This argument was flawed from the start and is now completely destroyed as nearly every other industrialised nation has made solid moves to cut emissions and support a renewable energy plan.<\/p>\n<p>The effect of the China-US agreement is to focus squarely on our own policies on renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>Australian renewable energy politics is proving to be an embarrassment. As I write world leaders are gathering in Brisbane for the prestigious G20 meeting. And where has the host country placed climate change and renewable energy on the agenda? Nowhere. As if to underline just how out of step the country is with the rest of the world, our Mr Abbott has specifically stated that climate change has no place at the Brisbane leg of the G20. This on top of his blatant spruiking of the fossil fuel industries.<\/p>\n<p>Incredible.<\/p>\n<p>With negotiations breaking down over the Renewable Energy Target (RET), Australian renewable energy politics has hit the proverbial tipping point. Labor delegates have reportedly walked out on the negotiations saying they cannot agree to the drastic cuts to the 20 percent target by 2020 that the government wants.<\/p>\n<p>Now this can be interpreted in a couple of ways:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>That Labor is starting to show some spine in standing up to the government\u2019s plan (perhaps as they realise the popularity of renewable energy amongst Australians).<\/li>\n<li>It is a calculated move to embarrass the government following the China-US agreement and on the eve of the G20 meeting in Brisbane.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However if it\u2019s the latter, perhaps the Labor party spin doctors should note that the Abbott government really doesn\u2019t need any assistance in embarrassing itself on the world stage.<\/p>\n<p>Historically Australians tend to be suspicious of policies and politicians. This, I would suspect, is no different with Australian renewable energy politics. We expect mediocrity in our elected representatives and are usually not disappointed. As we move (lurch would be a better term) between a bad and worse set of policies on this vital issue, the tendency of the Australian public is to go ahead and support renewable energy regardless of government policy. Hence the proliferation of solar panels on Australian roofs. The \u201cground (or roof) up\u201d nature of our solar industry.<\/p>\n<p>How long before our pollies follow the people on renewables?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very significant week in Australian renewable energy politics with the historic agreement between China and the United States on reducing emissions at the recent APEC summit in Beijing. 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