Labor’s battle to win Senate support for its climate change targets could continue for another two months following confirmation the legislation will not go before the Senate until September, and the Greens saying negotiations over their key demand were “not even at square one”.
, but there had been limited progress on his condition that there be a moratorium on all new coal and gas developments.“We are open to discussions on how that might happen,” he said. “At the moment, we are not even at square one.”has suggested the safeguard mechanism for heavy polluters associated with the policy would be sufficient as any new gas or coal project would be subject to it.
The government has threatened repeatedly to enact its policy without legislation rather than make any substantial change to placate the Greens. Noting that the BCA thinks businesses can absorb a reduction by 2030 of 46 per cent to 50 per cent, Mr Sharma said Australia’s current position was “a great start”.
The Greens are GREEN, no doubt about that ! None have anything between their EARS.
The Australian economy killer right there
Greens dealing with this with semblance of reality