Greens leader Adam Bandt says new coal and gas projects will not only make the “climate crisis worse,” but they can also “blow any chance” of Australia meeting the government’s “weak targets”.
New coal and gas projects could ‘blow any chance’ of meeting govt’s ‘weak’ climate targets
The Albanese government will introduce several legislations during the first week of parliament, with one of them being the climate bill to legislate Labor’s 2030 and 2050 targets to give certainty to businesses and the community. “People want the government to do more than it had promised, people want the coal and gas to stay in the ground,” Mr Bandt said during a media conference on Tuesday.
“I think we can have a debate including potentially over the remaining three years of this parliamentary term about how quickly we should get out of coal and gas, and what we should do to support coal and gas workers in the change. “But I think everyone across the country would be in agreement that while we’re negotiating climate legislation, we shouldn’t be making the problem worse by opening up new coal and gas mines.”
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