Australia’s coal future uncertain: G7 summit
By Jane Goldsmith Friday, June 19 2015 THE Australian Labor Party has warned the Abbott Government’s climate change policies could alienate Australia from some of the world’s most powerful industrial nations, following the G7 summit pledge to phase out the use of fossil fuels by the end of the century. At the 41st summit meeting at Schloss Elmau in Southern Germany, leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US addressed the “urgent and concrete action needed to address climate change”, primarily through cutting coal-powered station usage. “We emphasise that deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions are required with a decarbonisation of the global economy over the course of this century,” the G7 Leaders’ Declaration stated.…