Exclusive: A longstanding environmental campaigner and friend of Greens founder Bob Brown has urged the party to vote with Labor to pass a new law to cut emissions
in Queensland after a long career in business and a period as president of the ACF from 2014 to 2017.Andrew Meares
“The safeguard mechanism not only doesn’t stop them, it allows them to come in with soft baselines that ensure only a portion of their emissions are subject to a carbon price. Energy Minister Chris Bowen has turned down Bandt’s demand for a coal and gas ban and has also resisted calls to amend the draft law to restrict the way big companies could buy contracts to offset their emissions – for instance, by planting trees – rather than cutting their carbon output.Brown and Milne led the Greens in voting against Labor’s emissions trading scheme in 2009 because they regarded the policy, known as the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, as inadequate.
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