Labor to keep national energy guarantee in bid for climate truce

Shadow cabinet keeps Turnbull policy with a higher target, and formulates a plan B for renewables

Labor has resolved to keep the Coalition's national energy guarantee with a higher emissions reduction target, and will propose a detailed plan B for renewables in the event it can't be legislated.

The shadow cabinet on Wednesday took the decision to stick with the Neg developed by Malcolm Turnbull and Josh Frydenberg, with an emissions reduction target for electricity of 45% by 2030, in an attempt to see whether the Liberals could be persuaded to vote for their own mechanism post-election.