ANALYSIS: Climate change poses one of the biggest challenges of our lifetime. But is it a 'secondary issue' this election?
In fact, when the government added up its total "climate spending" in the budget papers, it revealed a 35 per cent cut between now and 2026, with a total of $700 million less being spent on climate in 2026 than today.
Wherever it's coming from, the budget papers show there's no plan to reinject that money into reducing emissions within the next four years.There were no new dollars for electric vehicles and no new money for transitioning communities reliant on coal jobs . But that funding extends beyond the period covered by the budget, and the papers don't explain how much of that, if any, is 'new' money -- that is, not already announced elsewhere, somethingThere has been one significant shift in the government's approach to climate change in this budget compared to the last one.
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