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 Change Minister Chris Bowen can appoint up to five new experts to a committee that is a key guardian of carbon credits integrity, after accepting three resignations.
Anglo American's Grosvenor coal mine has received a new Safeguard limit entitling it to emit six times more greenhouse gas than was forecast when it sought consent, highlighting deep flaws in the federal scheme, says the Australian Conservation Foundation.