Labor and Greens strike deal to establish nature repair scheme
by Lisa Cox from Environment | The Guardian on (#6GX5H)
Legislation being debated in the Senate will create a market to encourage private spending on projects that protect and restore biodiversity
The Albanese government and Greens have struck a deal to establish a nature repair scheme in exchange for fast tracking an expansion of the water trigger to all unconventional gas projects.
The deal would also prevent trades in a new nature market from being used as offsets for other destruction of habitat.
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