Bob Brown renounces Australian Conservation Foundation life membership over Labor’s climate policy

Conservationist criticises ACF for working to strike a deal on safeguard mechanism and undermining the Greens' position

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Former Greens leader Bob Brown has quit his life membership of the Australian Conservation Foundation in protest after the environment group urged parliament to strengthen and pass" a signature Albanese government climate policy.

Brown said he had returned his life membership - awarded in the 1980s for his leadership in the campaign to save Tasmania's Franklin River - over ACF's position on the safeguard mechanism, an industrial emissions policy that is the subject of negotiations between Labor and the Greens.

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