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Mike Sivier says, Who’s funding Reform UK’s war on Net Zero?
Our latest piece dives into the millions poured in by fossil fuel backers, aviation tycoons, and climate denial networks.

It’s time to ask: whose interests are they really defending?

#ReformUK #NetZero #ClimateCrisis #FollowTheMoney

voxpoliticalonline.com/?p=9807

Vox Political · Who’s Funding Reform UK’s War on Net Zero? Follow the MoneyReform UK slams Net Zero — but who’s paying for their anti-green crusade? We trace the fossil fuel money behind the party’s climate attacks

"The fracturing of the consensus [on #ClimateCrisis] has been far more profound at what we'd call 'elite level' rather than at public level”

Rightwing parties #Reform and #Tories want to create division over #NetZero because it has been for some time their next culture war.

Where there is division, there are potential votes and causes to attach party loyalty to that are wider reaching than bashing migrants and trans folk.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx20zn

Solar panels and wind turbines shown in a landscape
BBC News · How the political consensus on climate change has shattered - BBC NewsIn 2019, the UK committed in law to reducing its carbon emissions to net zero by 2050. Now the political climate has changed.
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Day 32 🗳️💨

Things are coming in thick and fast today, so I’ll try to summarise the major themes.

No Policies of the #Liberal, #LNP and #Coalition.

#AngusTaylor (Opposition Treasurer, Liberal) hands in his #Economics homework late, it’s got problems.

A 🎃 derivative that is toxic ☢️

“A Coalition government would drive the #budget deeper into #deficit over the coming two years, as the shadow finance minister, #JaneHume, insisted her party’s plan to save $17.2bn by #slashing the number of #Canberra-based #PublicServants by 41,000 through “natural attrition” was achievable.”

If returned to power, the Coalition would gut a long list of environment and clean energy programs, including #scrapping the #NetZero #Economy #Agency, reversing Labor’s #TaxBreaks for #ElectricVehicles, and redirecting money slated for the #HomeBatteries program.

#Reversing tax incentives for green hydrogen would save $1.5bn over four years, and not proceeding with Labor’s critical mineral production tax credits would save $1.2bn, the Coalition’s election policy costings show.”

#AusPol / #treasury / #costings / #economy / #future <theguardian.com/australia-news>

The Guardian · Coalition costings reveal larger deficit over coming two years with cuts to foreign aid and environment programsBy Patrick Commins

Am I alone in never having considered Tony #Blair progressive or of the Left?

Nor did I consider him the brains of his outfit at Number 10…

The lack of ideology and obsession with power over policies does strike me as similar to #Starmer.

#NetZero

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · It’s the anti net-zero, anti-woke Tony Blair – how was this man ever considered a progressive?By Zoe Williams

#Climate experts and politicians round on Tony Blair for ‘wrong message’ - theguardian.com/environment/20 "Former Labour PM accused of ‘handing talking points’ to Tories and Reform after saying #netzero strategy faltering" blair is either a knave or a fool - and probably both

The Guardian · Climate experts and politicians round on Tony Blair for ‘wrong message’By Aletha Adu
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“Tony #Blair has decided to mimic Nigel #Farage on #NetZero and sounds like he is speaking on behalf of petro-states like Saudi Arabia & Kazakhstan for whom he has lobbied for more years than he was PM.

It is vital that the government distance itself from this latest dodgy dossier from Blair and turn its attention instead to what the Climate Change Committee is saying today. Their report could not be clearer: we are woefully unprepared for the impacts of climate breakdown”

Carla #Denyer