Labor says it will reach 50% renewable energy regardless of PM's guarantee

Exclusive: Mark Butler says Malcolm Turnbull ambushed states with energy ‘thought bubble’

The shadow climate change minister, Mark Butler, says if state governments don’t veto the Turnbull government’s national energy guarantee, and if the policy passes into law, Labor will ramp up the level of emissions reduction in the event it wins the next federal election.

Butler says Labor has been “crystal clear” in discussions with industry stakeholders, and with state governments, that it will use any mechanism, either one of its own, or one it inherits, to drive 50% renewable energy by 2030.

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