The government's climate change Bill is assured of passage through Parliament, after Greens leader Adam Bandt today committed his party to voting for it.
After an inquiry into her previous EPBC climate trigger Bill was repeatedly delayed and then lapsed, Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young will re-introduce a version of the Bill today.
A new supplementary climate Bill would amend laws including the Clean Energy Regulator and NGER Acts, and Treasurer Jim Chalmers has confirmed the government is developing a standard approach to climate risk disclosure.
The Albanese government today introduced what Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen described as "simple yet powerful" legislation to lock in Labor's 2030 goal of a 43% emissions reduction.
In a move that helps paves the way to lower Safeguard baselines, the federal government has issued average emissions intensity values for industries including LNG, quarrying, and road freight transport.
Proposed Safeguard changes don't equate to an emissions trading scheme, and the Gillard government's low emission grants to manufacturers didn't deliver extra abatement, according to Treasury secretary Steven Kennedy.
Climate Minister Chris Bowen has appointed three experts to assist Ian Chubb in his ERF review, while professor Andrew Macintosh has suggested actions to fix integrity concerns that he and colleagues have raised.