Australian researchers are cautiously optimistic that the new Labor government will do more to address climate change than its conservative predecessor
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Although votes are still being tallied, the Labor Party, led by new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, has so far won 75 seats, enough to form a minority government. A dozen seats have also been won by the Greens and independent candidates, many of whom promised to do more about global warming than the former government.
“The policies of the previous government were often at odds with the science of climate change, so hopefully that will change with the new government,” says Michael Brown, an astrophysicist at Monash University in Melbourne. Labor has committed to reducing emissions by 43% of 2005 levels by 2030 and to boosting the share of electricity produced from renewable sources to 82% by 2030, up from 31% in 2021. The Liberal Party had only committed to reducing emissions by 26–28% of 2005 levels in the same period.
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