If the government won't gradually tighten emission limits for Safeguard facilities, it should support good performers with cheap loans, not special carbon credits, according to the Climate Change Authority.
Warren Entsch, the Morrison government's envoy for the Great Barrier Reef, is pushing key Coalition Ministers to take stronger action on climate change.
More businesses will be able to automatically adjust their Safeguard emission limits as their production output changes, under new federal government proposals.
A new Climate Change Authority report describes stimulus actions capable of rapidly creating new jobs, building economic resilience, and providing prosperity for future generations.
Including a greenhouse gas trigger in the EPBC Act would be unwarranted and inappropriate, according to the department administered by Emissions Reduction Minister Angus Taylor.