Prince Charles issues a stern rebuke on Morrison's climate dithering
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
As PM Scott Morrison continues to dither on net zero, beset by his troublesome junior partners in the Coalition, new polling shows almost 70% of Australians want the government to set a higher 2030 emissions reduction target.
They’re joined by none other than Prince Charles, who has issued a stern royal rebuke to the PM on climate.
And while all this is going on, departing Energy Security Board chief Kerry Schott has assessed that coal will have left Australia’s energy mix by the mid-2030s, regardless of injections of political hot air.
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