Liberal MPs are convinced the commitment will be ‘dead’ after next week’s party meeting, saying populist right’s ‘pathological hatred of the environment’ dashed hopes of compromise * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast By the time Liberal MPs filed out of last Friday’s meeting on energy policy, many had accepted the party’s promise to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 – made under Scott Morrison and retained by Peter Dutton – was all but dead. But there was a similar expectation that the party would remain loosely committed to carbon neutrality at some fixed point in time, even if not by mid-century. Continue reading...