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States have driven climate action until now. It’s time for the Australian government to step up

By Chris Wright, PhD Candidate in Environmental Policy, Macquarie University

For more than a decade, Australia’s emissions reductions have been driven not by the federal government but by the states and territories, often in relative obscurity.

State governments took the lead in driving rapid uptake of renewable energy, driving emissions down even as the federal “climate wars” raged.

But the heavy-lifting era of the states may be coming to an end. Reaching…

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