Pages tagged "policy_climate"
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'Fuel efficiency is a cost-of-living measure': Kylea Tink
Media release, 7 March 2024
Kylea has delivered a keynote speech at the Smart Energy 2024 Conference and Expo about the proposed New Vehicle Emission Standards and how a more participatory, transparent and collaborative parliament can deliver progress.
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Kylea Tink calling for better fuel efficiency standards
Sky News, 1 March 2024
Kylea explains how better fuel efficiency standards can help relieve cost of living pressures. “More fuel-efficient vehicles cost less to run ... What’s really important is actually looking beyond the party politicking to go, ‘What is really on offer here, how is this going to help me tomorrow’?"
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North Sydney makes case for community and climate in 2024-25 Pre-Budget Submission
Media release, 9 February 2024
Kylea has called for the Federal Budget to include funding for North Sydney's bushland, cycleways, sports and arts facilities; investments in cutting-edge research; and support for vulnerable women and children in the community.
Read the media release here and the submission in full here.
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Kylea welcomes new fuel efficiency standards
The Weekly Times, 4 February 2024
Kylea has welcomed the Government's release of draft fuel efficiency standards, which are due to take effect next year and will impose a fleet-wide cap on average emissions.
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Teals push emissions drop of '75 by 35'
North Shore Living, February 2024
With the government due to submit Australia's second emissions target by 2025, "we need to push now to make sure that target is more ambitious than the last and gets us to net-zero as soon as possible," Kylea says.
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Teals demand 75 percent emissions reduction target by 2035
The Australian, 17 January 2024
“Australia needs to rise to the very real challenges presented by climate change and accept responsibility for the changes we can affect – not just aligning with international benchmarks but helping to drive them further with a bold ambition," Kylea says. "We need far more than a mere ‘less bad’ approach.”
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Teal MPs push for 75 per cent emissions cut by 2035
Sky News, 17 January 2024
Independent MP Kylea Tink is calling for the government to implement a more ambitious climate target, asserting that it is based on science. “In Australia we now have a net zero target by 2050, but to be able to achieve that we need to have very clear milestone targets between 2030 and 2050," she says.
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Labor ends year with broken promise as EV policy faces delays
News.com.au, 31 December 2023
A promise by the Albanese government to unveil mandatory pollution caps for new vehicles sold in Australia by the end of 2023 has been broken, sparking fears its landmark EV policy will be put on ice. “It’s worse than frustrating that we’re going to end 2023 without fuel efficiency standards," Kylea is quoted as saying. “Now there’s no timeline — that really concerns me.”
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Opinion: Labor’s broken promise on fuel efficiency
The Saturday Paper, 20 December 2023
Australia’s transport emissions are rising and the chances of the federal government introducing fuel efficiency standards by the end of the year are shrinking by the day, Kylea writes in The Saturday Paper.
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Nature Repair Bill
House of Representatives, 7 December 2023