00:00The Premier was in Kwinana to talk up a new technology being rolled out by West Farmers to reduce the emission of one greenhouse gas from its Kwinana plant.
00:11It's one of many technologies being funded by government grants.
00:14Which is all part of our ongoing journey towards a net zero future.
00:19But the path to that future could be shifting. In 2023 the government was focused on legislating emissions reduction targets.
00:25The power of legislation inking into law where we want to be sends a powerful message.
00:32That legislation stalled in Parliament and two and a half years on, it's a different story.
00:37There's national legislation which will have us at net zero by 2050, which we are captured by.
00:42So we won't necessarily gain anything by having state legislation.
00:47Every other state and territory has passed climate targets, but the Premier says WA's emissions could increase as part of its efforts to help the rest of the world.
00:57I'm not going to shackle Western Australia to legislation which damages our efforts to help the globe to decarbonise and reduce emissions.
01:06Look, I think they're getting the wrong advice.
01:09They're getting it from fossil fuel industries who put everything up there to show that they're part of the transition, but they're not.
01:17Sustainability professor Peter Newman says pivoting to a fully green future is the only way forward.
01:23There is no point in increasing the emissions anywhere because they are no longer cheaper than the other options.
01:31The Greens tried to reintroduce the government's own legislation to Parliament last week as part of their push for climate action.
01:38What the Premier is doing by not having local targets is actually driving investment and clean energy to the east coast.
01:44Because, yeah, those targets will be captured there.
01:47But WA will pay for that for losing jobs and losing investment here.
01:51The Premier says no matter the path, he's still committed to reaching net zero by 2050.
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