Labor under internal pressure to commit to at least 70% emissions reduction by 2035
by Dan Jervis-Bardy from on (#6ZXAW)
Party's grassroots campaigners urge leadership to ignore business warnings about cost of setting ambitious' target
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Labor's grassroots environmental action network wants the Albanese government to adopt a 2035 emissions reduction target of at least 70% as a show of global climate action leadership, countering warnings from big business about the cost of such a goal.
In her first interview as the new co-convener of Labor Environment Action Network (Lean), Louise Crawford also said she had faith the government would finally deliver long-awaited reforms to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act after plans collapsed in the previous term.
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