Nearly 30% of Australia’s emissions come from industry. Tougher rules for big polluters is a no-brainer
- Written by: Rebecca Pearse, Lecturer, Australian National University
Australia’s historic climate law passed the Senate last week and enshrined an economy-wide target to reduce emissions. But an important measure to reduce Australia’s industrial emissions is still up for debate: the “safeguard mechanism”.
Introduced by the Abbott government in 2014, the safeguard mechanism is supposed to stop...