Albanese victory is a win for local weather, specialists sayprinted at 03:59 British Summer season Time
Picture supply, Getty PicturesLocal weather specialists say Labor’s victory final evening reveals Australia is “staying the course” on local weather and the transition to renewable vitality.
“This was an vitality referendum. Nuclear bombed on the poll,” says Amanda McKenzie, chief of the Local weather Council.
The Liberal Nationwide Coalition had made a serious push for nuclear energy, making it one of many centrepieces of their marketing campaign.
David Ritter, CEO at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, says the outcomes present the nation has “comprehensively rejected the Coalition’s Trumpist” local weather agenda. It’s now as much as Albanese to “take heed to Australians”, he provides.
Following its re-election, Labor will “double down on worldwide local weather motion”, in accordance with Dr Wesley Morgan, a analysis affiliate at UNSW.
However it’s going to additionally face stress to cease approving new coal and fuel initiatives, Morgan provides, as Australia stays one of many world’s largest exporters of these fossil fuels.
