“[W]e had a 15 per cent reduction when we were in government. Up to … the end of last year, there had only been a 1 per cent reduction under this government since it came to office in 2013.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Mr Albanese's claim is close to the mark. Annual greenhouse gas emissions fell 14.4 per cent under the last Labor government. By December 2019, under the Coalition, they had fallen 1.4 per cent. The quarterly figures reveal a similar picture, with Labor recording a drop in emissions of 13.4 per cent, compared with the Coalition's 2.4 per cent. While those changes reflect the numbers available at the time of the claim, emissions have since fallen further, in part due to the effects of COVID-19...
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In short
Anthony Albanese (Opposition Leader) made this claim around 11 November 2020. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 1 December 2020, 20 days later. Its rating was “Close to the mark”.
Anthony Albanese has 11 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 5 true.
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