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The Pros and Cons of Australia's Climate Policy

The annual potential emissions from those would be 1.4 billion tons and that is the equivalent of building 215 new coal fire power stations. That's a huge number plenty more than what Australia has in terms of current coal fired power stations which is still too many. Poly, will the safeguard mechanism stop any of those fossil fuel projects from going ahead? Well this is the crazy thing about the political debate currently you would think that any conversation about climate policy in Australia or emissions reductions or policies that we're going to reduce emissions would be designed to tackle the emissions from new fossil fuels and existing fossil fuel projects. You would think that would be a fundamental part of the conversation but that plays no role in any

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