'Sensible settlement' or 'strong action': Labor divided on carbon emissions

Senior Labor figures are divided over whether the party should wind back its carbon emissions targets to match those of the Coalition moving forward.

Joel Fitzgibbon and Anthony Albanese are at odds over Labor’s climate strategy. Source: AAP

Senior Labor figures have shown division after Labor frontbencher Joel Fitzgibbon declared the party should reach a ‘sensible settlement’ and wind back its emissions goals to match those of the Morrison government.

Labor went into the last election with a 45 per cent emissions reduction target - substantially more ambitious than the Coalition’s goal of a 26 per cent to 28 per cent fall by 2030.

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