In July 2015, Craig Bennett of Friends of the Earth accused Rudd of hypocrisy in claiming to want to address climate change while at the same time, in his view, "dismantling an architecture of low-carbon policies carefully put together with cross-party agreement over the course of two parliaments".
2015年7月，地球之友的克雷格·本内特指责路德想要应对气候变化的声明十分虚伪，而他主张，“废除低碳政策的框架并在国会上下两院仔细组织跨党派协议。