Breaking | After a week of negotiations, Nationals leader and Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce told Prime Minister Scott Morrison of the outcome shortly after a meeting of the Nationals party room ended on Sunday.
Nationals MPs have backed a federal government plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero levels by 2050 in a step that clears the way for Prime Minister Scott Morrison to make the formal pledge at the Glasgow climate summit next week.
“The easy decision would be to say no and join other people in screaming and yelling from the sidelines, having absolutely no influence on where the decisions went,” he told the media shortly before 6pm on Sunday. But he did not state his own position on net zero emissions, saying he had argued that the outcome was a matter for the Nationals party room rather than its leaders.
While some of his colleagues had suggested things could get ugly, Mr Littleproud downplayed the possibility of a split. NSW Treasurer Matt Kean – who in September committed the state to halving its emissions by 2030 – said he wanted Mr Morrison to take a net zero 2050 commitment and a higher 2030 target to the UN summit in Glasgow.
If the Nationals wouldn’t get on board with that, “they can resign from the ministry and support a Liberal government [or] they can resign from the ministry and support a Labor government,” he said.“It’s as if the federal government’s isolated from the shift that’s happened, the shift from the business community, the shift from farmers, the shift from state and territory governments,” he said.
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