{"id":19173,"date":"2025-07-24T18:42:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/19173\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T18:42:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:42:20","slug":"why-we-need-stronger-net-zero-climate-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/19173\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we need stronger net zero climate targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 48th parliament kicked off in Canberra this week. One of the first \u2013 and most important \u2013 tasks for the Albanese government will be setting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5lw56\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia\u2019s 2035 target<\/a> to cut climate pollution.<\/p>\n<p>In thinking about how to make this decision, the government must consider the impact of past inaction and the enormous opportunity afforded by a strong target.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 48th parliament kicked off in Canberra this week. One of the first \u2013 and most important \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-19173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19173","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=19173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}