The Government won’t set targets for the amount of renewable energy or electric vehicles Australia needs to meet its planned emissions cuts by 2035, despite its independent adviser setting out the levels needed.

Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen said the advice he released last week from the Climate Change Authority that outlined a pathway to cutting emissions 62-70 per cent only represented the types of things that could be done, not what must happen.

The CCA said in order to achieve the cuts by 2035, half of all cars sold needed to be electric vehicles, wind power needed to quadruple and large-scale solar triple, and renewables should make up more than 90 per cent of the nation’s electricity production.

But the minister insisted that the only CCA recommendation the Cabinet considere

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