Former Treasury secretary Ken Henry says Australia's climate policy framework, built over two decades, is under threat from both conservative and environmentalist factions. In a Clean Energy Council speech, Henry criticizes the same partisans who previously scrapped the carbon price, arguing that second-rate politics with first-rate egos are again undermining rational climate policy. Henry specifically calls out the abandonment of carbon pricing, which he describes as the world's most economically and scientifically rational climate tool. The speech warns that without a stable policy foundation, investment in renewables and decarbonization will stall, leaving Australia without a credible path to its emissions targets.
