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Blocking a decarbonisation target is a gift to foreign clean tech firms

James S Murray

James S Murray

29 October 2013 •

Clean energy investment will continue, but the failure to set a decarbonisation target for 2030 means costs will be higher and jobs will be lost overseas

First, a caveat: the defeat of the decarbonisation target amendment is not a crisis for the green economy. Nor is it a calamity, a catastrophe, or a cataclysm for the clean tech sector. Climate Change...

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