Labor's scheme to cut industrial emissions is worryingly flexible

Labor's scheme to cut industrial emissions is worryingly flexible

For years, the ‘safeguard mechanism’ has been widely criticised for lacking teeth. Labor’s new reform doesn’t change that much.

Labor’s scheme to cut industrial emissions is worryingly flexible | ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions

Rebecca Pearse, Australian National University The federal government today proposed new rules to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from Australia’s polluting industrial sector. The rule changes apply to a measure known as the “safeguard mechanism”, and are supposed to stop Australia’s top 215 emitters, such as new coal, oil and gas projects, from emitting over certain