https://www.policyforum.net/powering-political-consensus/ The APPS Policy Forum a public policy website devoted to Asia and the Pacific. Thu, 08 Dec 2016 05:24:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 https://www.policyforum.net/powering-political-consensus/#comment-7264 Tue, 21 Jun 2016 06:32:37 +0000 http://www.policyforum.net/?p=10927#comment-7264 The Australian Government has a larger game plan than domestic energy policy.
In 2015 it helped fund the creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (the AIIB).
Unlike the World Bank that decided 2 years earlier to stop funding coal-fired power plants, the AIIB is set to fund new coal-fired plants across Asia and the rest of the world.
Though this tends to undermine global commitments on climate change in Paris, it will grow new markets for expanding and prolonging Australian coal exports.

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