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The key sticking point is the use of the term “net zero”. There is little disagreement in the Coalition about how unrealistic Labor’s goals to meet the pledge seem to be or about the use of nuclear power. “Net zero itself has turned into this sort of totemic phrase, this sort of binary issue – are you pro net zero or anti-net zero? – which I think is just crazy,” Hume told this masthead’s Inside Politics podcast. “Everybody wants to reduce emissions. Net zero has somehow become this euphemism for whether you believe in man-made climate change.” The Victorian senator, dropped from Ley’s frontbench after the election, appeared to back a compromise position put forward by her moderate ally Andrew Bragg. He has argued that by remaining in the Paris Agreement, which even the Nationals want, the Coalition can retain an aspiration to a net zero future, even if it is post-2050.
