The 2006 Victorian election and climate change

Overall, the policy commitments could be summarised as good progress on renewable energy and energy efficiency, an attempt to set long-term direction for reducing greenhouse pollution (but lacking the short and medium-term targets), but a comprehensive failure to begin the move away from coal necessary to tackle climate change. As yet we have no guarantee that greenhouse pollution will fall between now and the next state election in 2010, and it’s very unlikely to do so.