Coalition won’t reveal 2030 emissions target unless it wins election, Peter Dutton says

The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, says the Coalition will make decisions on a 2030 emissions targets if it forms government. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has accused Peter Dutton of being “afraid of the future” and risking “chasing away” investment in clean energy in Australia, after the opposition leader confirmed the Coalition will not set a 2030 emissions reduction target unless it wins the next election.

Albanese called Dutton’s stance “absurd”, highlighting confused messages from the Coalition about its climate policy, and saying any backtrack on Australia’s emissions reductions commitments would be “walking away from the Paris agreement”.