CLIMATE ACTIONmore renewables more jobs less pollution

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Join more than 350 ALP Branches calling for

PROPOSED LEAN AMENDMENTSChapter 4, Tackling climate change and environmental challenges

LEAN will be seeking to amend paragraph 16 of Chapter 4 of the Platform to include:

• A commitment to deliver 50% of our electricity from renewable sources by 2030.

• Adoption of the Climate Change Authority’s recommended carbon pollution reduction targets.

• The creation of a single ministry of Climate Change and Energy.

HOW TO VOTEChapter 4, Tackling climate change and environmental challenges, will be debated on Saturday afternoon at 2.15pm.

• If you are a delegate, or a proxy, please make sure you are on the floor to vote FOR the LEAN amendments.

• If you are an observer please encourage your delegates to support LEAN, and come and chat to LEAN at our Fringe stall for further ideas on how to help.

Together, we can help Labor step up to the challenge and become the party that will lead Australia through a just transition to a clean, fair and prosperous future!

To discuss any of this further please call Felicity Wade, LEAN National Co-convenor on 0408 246 444.

LEAN’s 50/50 Climate Action Campaign

More than 350 Local Branches and FEC/FEAs have passed motions in support of the LEAN

campaign calling on the 2015 National Conference to ensure Labor continues to lead the nation on action for more renewables, more jobs and less pollution.

The Draft Platform is a document Labor should be proud of. It expressly recognises the advice of the IPCC that the 2°Celsius target requires advanced economies to approach zero net emissions by mid century [4.15]. In addition, the draft platform includes a commitment to an emissions trading scheme, and clean energy.

However, the rank and file has spoken. We are calling for credible targets for renewable energy and pollution reduction. Labor must get climate change and energy policy right if we’re to win at the next federal election. Listening to the experts, legislating credible targets, and explaining them to the electorate is essential.

As we debate party reform aiming to empower the party membership, the Conference should take very seriously the fact that Labor Members from Townsville to Balranald, Geraldton to Burnie, and Mt Druitt to St Kilda have all endorsed the campaign and joined our call. What’s more, the state conferences in NSW, Queensland, Tasmania and WA have endorsed adoption of the Climate Change Authority’s pollution targets.

WHERE DO OUR NUMBERS COME FROM?50% renewable energy by 2030Two-thirds of Australia’s carbon pollution comes from our energy sector. Cleaning up the energy sector is the key reform that breaks the back of the challenge to reduce our pollution. What’s more polling shows that people like and understand the benefit of renewable energy.

Modeling by Monash University’s ClimateWorks, chaired by John Thwaites, shows that as part of a broader energy package we must have half our electricity sourced from renewable energy by 2030 in order to play our part in keeping global warming within 2°Celsius.

Origin Energy predicts that 30% of our electricity will be renewable by 2020. Labor State Governments around Australia have already adopted ambitious targets: South Australia has a target of 50% renewables by 2025; Queensland 50% by 2030; and the ACT is aiming for a huge 90% by 2020!

50% by 2030 is achievable and will generate new industries, jobs and innovation.

Adopting strong pollution targetsWhen in Government Labor set up the Climate Change Authority to provide independent advice on climate policy and made Bernie Fraser its Chair.

One of the Climate Change Authority’s key tasks was to recommend national pollution reduction targets based on three criteria: the science, the international context and the economic impacts.

Just this month the Climate Change Authority has confirmed its recommendations that we should reduce pollution by 30% by 2025 and 40-60% by

2030 (against 2000 levels) to meet its international obligations and prevent dangerous climate change.

Labor’s 2011 Platform explicitly commits Labor to taking advice from the Climate Change Authority in setting pollution reduction targets. This Conference provides the opportunity to do so.

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IS YOUR BRANCH AMONG THE 350?

List current as of 16th July 2015

Friday 12.30-1.30pm, Room 206• Transport Workers Union and Labor Environment

Action Network present: Is the Environment a Middle Class Obsession?

A panel discussion exploring the tension between jobs vs the environment that rumbles at the heart of the Labor Party with Tony Sheldon, TWU, Professor Tim Flannery, Climate Council and Claire O’Rourke, Solar Citizens.

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Saturday 9.30-11.30am, Room 209• Solar Council presents: Save Solar

With Mark Butler, Shadow Climate Change Minister, Luke Foley, NSW Labor leader, Simon Corbell, ACT Climate Change Minister, Lily D’Ambrosio, Victorian Energy Minister and Felicity Wade, LEAN.

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Saturday 6-7pm, Room 207• Australian Conservation Foundation presents:

A New Environment for Labor

A discussion on the frameworks, policies and laws necessary to protect our natural heritage into the 21st century with Mark Butler, Shadow Environment Minister, Kelly O’Shanassy, CEO of ACF, Lyndon Schneiders, Director of The Wilderness Society and Dermot O’Gorman, CEO of WWF Australia.

Sunday 1.30-2.30pm, Room 209• Labor Environment Action Network (LEAN)

presents: Climate Change and the Pacific

Our nearest neighbours in the Pacific will be some of the hardest hit by climate change, with Matt Thistlethwaite, Shadow Parl Sec for Foreign Affairs, Ikani Taliai, United Pasifika Council, Jon Barnett, Melbourne University and Kelly Dent, Oxfam.

And don’t forget to come by and say hi at the LEAN stall. Join up and get involved.

RALLYRally to support Labor Climate Leadership at 11am, Saturday 25 July, out front of the conference. Hosted by Oxfam, The Wilderness Society, Solar Citizens, Environment Victoria and GetUp!

WHAT YOU CAN DO• Contact your delegates, tweet @BillShortenMP and @

Mark_Butler_MP #support50fifty.

• To talk to LEAN by phone while at conference phone Ella Factor on 0431 943 284 or Matt Landolfo on 0408 182 184.

• Visit us at www.lean.net.au/50fifty and on Facebook: www.facebook.com/LEANAustralia

JOIN US AT THE FRINGE!

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