PRESSURE is building for a review of one of Labor's key climate change policies, with a Rudd Government greenhouse adviser dismissing enforceable targets for renewable energy generation as "market-distorting" industry assistance.

Roger Wilkins, who is conducting a review of Labor's climate change policies to complement an emissions trading scheme, yesterday added his voice to the Productivity Commission's criticism last week of the mandatory renewable energy target.

Under the MRET, 20 per cent of the nation's power must be generated from renewable sources such as wind and solar energy by 2020. ... Read full article