The Nationals, net zero and the opportunity cost for Australia – with Lenore Taylor.

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This week, the Coalition debated what it would exempt from a policy to achieve a target of net zero emissions by 2050 – a policy and a target that do not currently exist. Guardian Australia editor Lenore Taylor and head of news Mike Ticher discuss what’s at stake while Australia fails to act on climate change

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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2021/feb/12/the-nationals-net-zero-and-the-opportunity-cost-for-australia-with-lenore-taylor

Hosted by Gabrielle Jackson with Lenore Taylor and Mike Ticher. Produced by Ryan Pemberton. The executive producer is Miles Martignoni

Fri 12 Feb 2021 03.30 AEDT

You can read the articles mentioned in the podcast here:

• Australia’s climate wars were always stupid. Now they’ve got even dumber, by Katharine Murphy, political editor
• What New Zealand is really doing on climate – and the issues with carving out farming from net zero emissions, by Adam Morton, environment editor
• Australia’s electric vehicle policy steers us to a future based on fossil fuels. It needs to be dumped, by Simon Holmes à Court

Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian