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Tanya Plibersek on Labor’s plans for Australia’s environment

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The Climate Trigger - You've Not Ruled It Out, Catherine

Climate trigger has come up because of the climate negotiation around the targets bill. So what do you think about all that? You have not ruled this out, but there are great opportunities here for us reducing omissions and doing better on the environment. What i'm not prepared to do is rule out or place some oratorium on future coal and gas projects. These things do have to be decided on a case by case basis. It's not fair to discard those principles of international accounting for carbon pollution. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't be ambitious. We should be aiming for more renewables in our electricity grid. I interested in not just using carbon credits there, but looking at by diversity credits

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