Read our Vice Chair’s opinion piece: Matt Kean is right: Coal is no help in the fight against heatwaves

Published: December 7, 2020

Our Vice Chair Dr Matt Edwards wrote a piece to the Canberra Times on the importance for conservatives to support an orderly transition to renewables. read the full article HERE

At Coalition for Conservation, we applaud conservative leaders who are serious about conservation. We want nothing more than for our children and grandchildren to inherit a better world. The over-reliance on coal to provide baseload power in heatwaves is dangerous, both to the environment and the economy.

We support efforts to transition jobs in the fossil-fuel industry responsibly to renewables projects, many of which require similar skillsets, and to support communities dependent on coal throughout this transition

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