Conservatives like me embrace conservation. Why the Coalition’s chainsaw approach to climate? | Andrew McLachlan

The Guardian reports the following. ENC is republishing it as an attributed briefing, not as independently confirmed fact. If this item is false or incomplete, the responsibility sits with The Guardian, which released it. The radical assault on longstanding measures to drive down Australia’s emissions and facilitate decarbonisation seems almost pathological Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here The Coalition is repudiating its longstanding policy positions on climate, even to the extent of disowning many of the structures it created when in government. Such thinking is not from the conservative tradition and has more in common with the radical. In my view, it is an abandonment of the Liberal traditions and values that have long sustained the party’s success. The Coalition wants to remove net zero targets from Australian law, abolish the Net Zero Economy Agency, reform (read diminish) the Australian Renewable Energy Agency and the Clean Energy Finance Corpor… Original link: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/nov/02/conservatives-like-me-embrace-conservation-why-the-coalitions-chainsaw-approach-to-climate