Adam Bandt has declared the Greens will support the government’s signature Climate Change Bill but then lashed out at Labor as the “only obstacle” to greater ambition.
The government needed to secure the minor party’s support to pass the legislation in Senate but the Greens had demanded Labor introduce a moratorium on future coal and gas mines.
Greens Leader, Adam Bandt confirmed his party would support Labor's Climate Change Bill during his address to the National Press Club on Wednesday. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman Labor then amended the bill to clearly enshrine the 43 per cent target as a floor rather than a ceiling, but the Greens continued to steadfastly refuse to support the legislation if it failed to act on coal and gas.
“That would see them curbed from supporting fossil fuels. They join a range of other agencies with new limits, including Infrastructure Australia and the Northern Australia Infrastructure Fund.” “It is woeful that under this country's environment laws you can approve projects, even if they make climate change worse and destroy the environment,” he said.
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