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Labor’s signature climate change bill to slash emissions by 43 per cent is facing defeat in the Senate after the Greens delivered a scathing assessment of the draft legislation.
A leaked draft of the climate change bill obtained by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age revealed the proposed legislation is largely symbolic because it will only enshrine an emissions target and oblige the federal government to make an annual progress report to parliament.
North Sydney independent Kylea Tink said the most important thing was that “whatever comes out of this legislative reform it has to be a lot more than a headline emissions reduction target for 2030” and that “there needs to be a clear ratcheting up clause in the legislation” to be able to raise climate targets in the future.
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