Coalition’s future voter base threatened if net zero is scrapped
Liberal MPs have descended on Canberra today for a meeting that will finalise whether they will keep or scrap net zero emissions by 2025. A decision that poses an existential threat to the party’s future, if they choose to distance themselves from a growing electorate concerned by climate change.
The previous bipartisan support of net zero was broken when the Nationals announced they would be ditching the policy earlier this month, and it is seeming like the Liberals will follow suit. Nevertheless, the party needs to win back inner city seats lost to the Teals, and appeal to Millennials and Gen Z who now make up 47% of voters. Scrapping robust climate policy has significant potential to destroy both Liberal and National support from a generation who will live to see the effects of climate change on their world.