Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says that Australia’s work with other democracies on climate action is more important than ever following Trump’s inflammatory address to the UN in which he called climate change a “hoax” yesterday.
“It’s even more important now that Australia works with other democracies around the world, like the UK, like Europe and those in our region that we can work with because it’s clear that under Trump, the United States has absolutely gone bat shit crazy,” she said on Sky this morning.
“[Albanese] is over there announcing Australia’s newly committed climate targets, and at the same time, journalists are saying, well, you want to do all this work on cutting emissions, you’re still opening new huge gas projects.”
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
Asked whether Australia should be compared to other countries on emissions reductions targets following an announcement yesterday that China would commit to cutting emissions by 7 to 10 per cent by 2035, Deputy Nationals leader Kevin Hogan said, “Of course we should be comparing ourselves … We’re doing a lot better than China, and we’re doing a lot better than India, and we’re doing a lot better than the US.
“We are not supporting the government’s emissions reductions target, because it’s going to do a lot of damage, and it’s a lot of cost, it’s a lot of money that it’s going to cost Australian business and Australian households,” he said.
Hanson-Young fired up at Hogan, telling the Deputy Nationals leader his party had “no policies” and “no sense”.
“At the moment, you’ve got no policies, and you’ve got no sense. And that’s the reality of the Coalition’s position on the climate crisis right now. Australia has signed up to the Paris Agreement. We’ve made a commitment that we would work with countries around the world to reduce pollution because it’s killing the planet. Now, we can either do what we can do and be clear about that and listen to the science, or we can sit back like Kevin is proposing, like Donald Trump is proposing, and do nothing,” Hanson-Young said.
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