Scott Morrison: Mark Butler and Morrison Government

scott morrison: Labor's climate spokesman, Mark Butler, has accused Scott Morrison of already cutting the main policy to deliver his weak 2030 pollution reduction targets while the Greens attacked the Coalition for spending just 189m over the first four years, according to The Guardian. The 2bn relaunch of the Abbott-era emissions reduction fund was part of the Morrison government's effort to bolster its environmental credentials in the face of rising community concern about the impact of climate change and challenges from independent candidates targeting the Liberal party on its climate record. The decision, revealed in Tuesday's budget, effectively cuts the amount spent per year from 200m to 133m over the life of the fund, which pays polluters to implement greenhouse gas abatement projects. Labor's climate change policy explained here's what we know Read more In February the prime minister's office briefed journalists, including Guardian Australia, that 2bn would be invested over 10 years in the climate fund to build on the ERF's record of reducing emissions by 193m tonnes. But in the budget papers released on Tuesday, the climate solutions fund is allocated 2bn over 15 years from 2019-20, including 189m over four years. On 25 February Scott Morrison told Sky News the Emissions Reduction Fund was a 2bn investment over the next 10 years a comment he repeated in a speech the f0llowing day. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.