Australia’s parliament sat on Tuesday in Canberra for the first time since Labor won office in an election that also saw the Greens party win record seats, reflecting Australians’ concern about climate change amid worsening bushfires and floods.
Greens leader Adam Bandt is in negotiations with the government, and said on Tuesday the 43 per cent target was “weak”, and had been set by Labor based on keeping coal fired power stations in the system. “There are things we have made more explicit in the bill that we will be introducing into parliament, including how the Paris mechanism works to require future targets to be higher than previous targets,” he told reporters, after talks with the Greens.
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