Australia enshrines law to cut its greenhouse gas emissions down by 43%
The Liddell Power Station and Bayswater Power Station, coal-powered thermal power station are pictured near Muswellbrook in the Hunter Valley, Australia on November 2, 2021
AUSTRALIA’S Parliament has enshrined into law the government’s elevated target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 43 per cent below 2005 levels by the end of the decade.
The Senate passed legislation today supporting the target in a vote of 37 to 30, even though several senators who supported it wanted a more ambitious 2030 target.
The centre-left Labour Party government officially committed Australia to the 43 per cent target after it came to power for the first time in nine years at May elections.
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