Q&A: Alan Finkel says clean energy target designed for deeper emissions cuts
Josh Frydenberg distances himself from former prime minister Tony Abbott and says target is ‘not a tax on coal’
The clean energy target recommended by the chief scientist, Alan Finkel, was designed so future governments could ratchet up the ambition of the emissions cuts, Finkel has said on the ABC’s Q&A program.
Labor’s climate and energy spokesman, Mark Butler, indicated that Labor would do exactly that, if the mechanism was instituted and they then won government.
Alan Finkel: With my blueprint there is a good opportunity here to do something that is wholly inadequate #qanda
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