SYDNEY: Breakthrough climate laws passed by Australia on Thursday (Mar 30) will target the nation's worst polluters, forcing coal mines and oil refineries to curb emissions by about five percent each year. Experts said the laws signalled the end of Australia's bitter 'climate wars' - a decade of political
SYDNEY: Breakthrough climate laws passed by Australia on Thursday will target the nation's worst polluters, forcing coal mines and oil refineries to curb emissions by about five percent each year.
Aluminium smelters, coal mines, oil refineries and other large polluters will be forced to cut their emissions by 4.9 per cent each year. The previously sceptical Greens - whose support was needed to pass the laws - agreed to back the carbon plan after persuading the government to put a hard cap on emissions.Although many praised the laws as a crucial first step, Wiedmann warned Australia could not rest on its laurels."The hard decisions will come in the next few years."
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