Australia cannot meet its 2035 climate target with existing policy settings: Stronger incentives are urgently needed.
- Honorary Professor of Public Policy, Australian National University
A few key questions can help us judge if the federal government’s 2035 targets will flop or fly.
Marking farms more water-efficient pushes up prices twice as much as buying water back.
Almost all of the food we consume in Australia is made in Australia. We export far more than we import.
For crop farmers, the risk of low profit years has doubled.
Australia’s farming industry will need to take full account of its obligations to its workers, its customers, society and the environment if it is to prosper in the years to 2030.
We need to make sure well-meaning policy responses to drought don’t do more harm than good.
We have all the tools to achieve economic growth and environmental sustainability - we just have to choose to use them.
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