The election of a federal government that is more engaged on climate change will affect state government decision-making about interim targets, Victoria's Climate Change Minister Lily D'Ambrosio told Footprint today.
The Victorian government has appointed an expert panel chaired by carbon law and investment specialist Martijn Wilder to advise it on a binding emissions target for 2035.
A Labor government would gradually tighten emission limits on 215 large emitters covered by the Safeguard Mechanism, as part of its efforts to deliver a 43% cut in national emissions by 2030.
A climate change Bill introduced today to the Tasmanian Parliament mandates the preparation of sector-based emissions reduction and resilience plans, and prescribes a net-zero target from 2030.
The Tasmanian government's rewrite of its climate law will mandate sectoral transition plans, while a new waste report says the state will ban problem plastics in 2025.
The NSW Government now forecasts that the state's emissions will halve by 2030, instead of falling by about a third, and the recalibration is being driven by changes already underway in business, agriculture, transport and the coal industry.