The Wire

Over the weekend, Prime Minister John Howard announced that his government would raise the clean energy target from 2% to 15% by 2020. The move counts clean energy as renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and geo-thermal energy, but it also includes so-called clean coal and nuclear energy. The move by Mr Howard, previously a climate skeptic, has drawn been welcomed by energy providers but has been slammed by green groups and the Labor opposition as merely “piggybacking” onto the state-based programs that are already in existence. The Wire spoke earlier with John Connor, CEO of the Climate Institute, to get his take on the move.