National MP Sparks Net Zero Split With Repeal Push

Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives to repeal Australia’s legislated net zero emissions targets, describing the policy as economically damaging and globally ineffective.

“Net zero is going to have absolutely no effect on the climate whatsoever,” Joyce told Parliament, arguing that countries like China, India, Indonesia, the United States, Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East were not “participating in it in a real form.”