Fighting the future: the politics of climate policy failure in Australia (2015–2020)
2021
This Focus review provides an overview of climate politics and policy under
the Turnbull (2015–2018) and Morrison (2018) conservative Coalition governments
following the dismantling of carbon pricing in 2014. Without effective
policies to reduce emissions in place, Australia will fail to meet its 2030 Paris
emissions reduction target. Climate policy failure is framed in these terms. The
paper outlines Australia's climate policy challenge and the macroconstraints
upon action, before detailing commentary and analysis of climate politics and
policies post 2015. In reviewing accounts of the Turnbull and Morrison government's
climate policy efforts, the paper draws attention to the handbrake of
conservative politics upon decisive action. It finds that Australia's climate policy
is not only structurally constrained by its reliance upon fossil fuels, but has
been politically constrained by conservatives within the Coalition government
since 2015.
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