Article 2SVKP Voters prefer low emissions target to carbon trading – Guardian Essential poll

Voters prefer low emissions target to carbon trading – Guardian Essential poll

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Katharine Murphy Political editor
from Environment | The Guardian on (#2SVKP)

People were less happy to consider coal generation with 100% capture and storage as a 'low emission' energy source

Australian voters would back a new low emissions target over emissions trading as a policy to reduce carbon pollution, but are not sure about including "clean" coal in the mix, according to the latest Guardian Essential poll.

The latest survey of 1,785 voters, which follows Tuesday night's three-hour Coalition party room meeting in which significant concerns were ventilated about the Finkel review, also taps significant community concerns about the rising threat of terrorism in Australia.

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