{"id":136983,"date":"2025-09-12T05:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/136983\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T05:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:49:06","slug":"australia-a-global-leader-of-energy-idiocy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/136983\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia: a global leader of energy idiocy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government is widely tipped to announce its 2035 emissions reduction target next week, ahead of the upcoming United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The Labor Environment Action Network\u2019s new co-convener Louise Crawford <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/sep\/09\/labor-under-internal-pressure-to-commit-to-at-least-70-emissions-reduction-by-2035\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">says<\/a> the 2035 target will provide an opportunity for Australia to demonstrate \u201cglobal leadership\u201d on the world stage.<\/p>\n<p>Crawford has also confirmed that the internal Labor lobby group wants the 2035 target to be a minimum of 70%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The federal government is widely tipped to announce its 2035 emissions reduction target next week, ahead of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-136983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}