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Chris Wright, PhD Candidate in Environmental Policy, Macquarie University

States have driven climate action until now. It’s time for the Australian government to step up

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For more than a decade, Australia’s emissions reductions have been driven not by the federal government but by the states and territories, often in relative obscurity.

State governments took the lead in driving rapid uptake of renewable energy, driving emissions down even as the federal “climate wars” raged.

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