section_path: Political views/Environmental issues
section_name: Environmental issues
paragraph_text: Environmental issues
  
  While serving in the Gillard government, Albanese supported the introduction of carbon pricing, and voted, along with the rest of the Labor Party, to establish the Clean Energy Act 2011, which instituted a carbon pricing scheme in Australia. After the Abbott government abolished the scheme in July 2014, Albanese stated that carbon pricing was no longer needed, as "the circumstances have changed".
  
  Albanese is a prominent backer of renewable energy in Australia and has declared that the country's "long-term future lies in renewable energy sources". Upon his election in 2022, he said he would "end the climate wars " and mitigation and policies to address climate change in Australia would be a priority for his government, in contrast with those preceding it.