Australia has backed a rapid shift to renewable energy - and given Labor a chance on climate. How will it act? | Clear Air

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Sign up for the Clear Air Australia newsletter here Analysis of the election result has barely begun, but this much is clear - the country has backed a rapid acceleration towards renewable energy.
58% : The rollout of renewable energy is being underpinned by a federal underwriting program - a capacity investment scheme - to ensure a substantial amount of large-scale solar, wind and batteries are built as coal plants shut.
57% : Not all of this went to community-backed indies advocating stronger action on climate change and renewable energy, but most of it did.
55% : It's too soon to know what this means for the Coalition's promise to build taxpayer-funded nuclear generators, or whether it will accept that the grid is on a path to running overwhelmingly on renewable energy backed by firming support, as the Australian Energy Market Operator says it can.
50% : They created a Net Zero Economy Authority to help fossil fuel communities adjust to changes ahead.
49% : Labor's position has been relentlessly attacked by the Coalition, rightwing organisations backed by fossil fuel interests and one of the country's biggest news media companies.
45% : The Coalition's position - unwinding or scrapping nearly all of Labor's climate policies, abandoning the Paris climate agreement in spirit if not name, and slowing the rollout of renewable energy while substantially boosting local fossil fuel energy for the next two decades - is basically climate denial, and not what a majority of Australians want.
45% : There will also likely be an early focus on the environment portfolio, where Albanese has again promised Labor will create a national environment protection agency and rewrite conservation laws after both were dropped last term.
44% : They passed "future made in Australia" laws introducing tax production credits for green industries, including hydrogen, aluminium and critical minerals.

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