The NSW government's plan to put the state on track to net-zero emissions will encourage good performers and expose bad ones, while leveraging government procurement and assets to an unprecedented extent.
Fans and critics of a NSW government bill to limit the Independent Planning Commission's duty to consider carbon emissions when assessing new mines and gas fields agree on one thing – the proposed law is badly drafted.
NSW Planning Minister Rob Stokes today introduced a Bill that means assessments of new mining and gas projects will no longer consider downstream greenhouse gas emissions.
In another sign that independent environmental decision-makers favour tougher climate change conditions than their state governments, a NSW commission has imposed an export restriction on a coal project.