Coalition promises review of Direct Action's 'safeguards' process in 2017
by Lenore Taylor Political editor from on (#PTFW)
Experts cast doubt on ability of Turnbull government's climate change policy to achieve the greenhouse gas emission reductions it is counting on
The Turnbull government has promised a full review of the so-called "safeguards" mechanism in its climate policy within a year of it starting, amid doubts that it can achieve the greenhouse emission reductions the Coalition is banking on.
On Thursday the environment minister, Greg Hunt, quietly gazetted the long-awaited final detail of the mechanism, which is designed to ensure increasing industrial emissions do not undo the greenhouse gas abatement that the government buys through its $2.55bn emissions reduction fund.
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