Malcolm Turnbull accuses Liberals of ‘Trumpian campaign against renewables’ after party dumps net zero

Climate groups call backflip a disaster' while moderate Liberals worry about impact on winning back urban electorates

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The former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says his party's decision to dump a net zero emissions target shows it does not take climate change seriously", accusing the opposition of a Trumpian campaign against renewables".

But while moderate sources are alarmed about the impact on winning back or retaining urban electorates, and climate groups called the backflip a disaster", the Liberal decision to scrap its own 2050 target and unwind Labor's 2035 and renewable energy pledges has been praised by conservative MPs and campaigners.