Vote Climate

See also Detailed Policy Summaries and "At A Glance" Part 2 for Conservatives for Climate and Environment, Climate Change Coalition, Family First and the Nationals.

	What Women Want		Greens	Dems	Labor	Lib
Acceptance
Accepts the science that the current Climate Change is largely human caused
Priority and Policy
Treats as a high priority internally and in public
Separate Climate Policy
International
Sign and Support Kyoto yes or no
Aid policy that helps mitigation and adaption programs in other countries
Goals*	What Women Want		Greens	Dems	Labor	Lib
Zero Emission Goals
Zero Emissions Minus
Near Zero
Zero Net
2020 Goals
60% reduction of Greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by 2020
30% reduction of Greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by 2020
2050 Goals
80% reduction of Greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by 2050
60% reduction of Greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by 2050
60% reduction of Greenhouse gas emissions below 2000 levels by 2050
Emission Reduction Mechanisms	What Women Want		Greens	Dems	Labor	Lib
Government designed mandatory reductions
Carbon Tax
Carbon Trading
Energy	What Women Want		Greens	Dems	Labor	Lib
Support crash conversion to renewable based electricity system
Support major role out of renewables
Support minor role out of renewables
Support "Feed in Tariff" for small small scale renewables
Stop Coal Exports
Phase Out Domestic Coal Industry
Oppose "Clean Coal Carbon Capture and Storage"
Remove Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Oppose Nuclear Power Plants
Stop Uranium Exports
See also Vote Nuclear Free for a more detailed comparison of nuclear policies
Energy efficiency / reduction
Plan to limit energy growth
Plan to promote energy efficiency
Transport	What Women Want		Greens	Dems	Labor	Lib
Near Zero Emission Transport Policy
Major improvements in public transport
Minor improvements in public transport
Significant improvements in cycling and walking infrastructure
Significant decrease in road spending
Upgrading and expand rail freight
Support of EV and Plug in Hybrid Vehicles
Supports low emissions car industry
Indentifies need to act on issues of oil peak
Opposses coal to oil and other GHG intensive fuels
Land Clearing and Forestry	What Women Want		Greens	Dems	Labor	Lib
End to land clearing
End to logging of native forests
Including land clearing and forestry emissions in carbon tax/trading systems
Agriculture
Policy to reduce emissions from agriculture
Acknowledgement of the key role livestock and consequently meat and dairy consumption have on emissions
Including agricultural emissions in carbon tax/trading systems
Social Justice / Equity	What Women Want		Greens	Dems	Labor	Lib
Social justice elements in plans to address climate change
Social equity elements such as global carbon rationing
Accepting regional climate refugees from Pacific
Population
Plans to reduce or stabilise population growth

See also Detailed policy Summaries and compare the political parties with a series of asks from environmental lobby groups by clicking here.

Key
= Especially good policy or goes beyond stated goal.
= Supports
= Does not or no evidence of support.
= Policy has negative outcomes that deserve highlighting.
= Policy has very negative outcomes or moves us backwards.
= Yet to be assessed.
* = if goals listed in policy are given in a range, for example 60-80% reduction on 1990 levels then the minimum figure is used for assessment of policy.