'Is Ballieu going cold on climate?' asks Andrew Herrington in Climate Spectator
In further evidence of the Baillieu Government's increasingly negative position on climate change, moves are afoot to quietly axe $106 million in funding for climate change initiatives committed in last year's Victorian Climate Change White paper.
Last week, the Premier, Ted Baillieu and Minister for Environment and Climate Change, Ryan Smith (who share responsibility for the Act) placed inconspicuous newspaper advertisements calling for comment on a new "Sustainability Fund Priority Statement" – giving just three weeks for responses, which are due on August 3.
What these advertisements failed to reveal is that the government is trying to bypass legislation that last year re-designated this fund as the "Climate Communities" fund and allocated a substantial part of it to go towards community initiatives on climate change.
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