The Miles Labor government has passed legislation entrenching a 75 percent cut to climate change emissions by 2035.
The legislation also locks in 80 percent renewable energy generation by 2035, and 50 percent by 2030.
Liberal-National Party parliamentarians backed the climate emissions targets, but not legislating them.
“Three renewable energy targets of 50 percent renewable energy by 2030, 70 percent by 2032, and 80 percent by 2035 have been locked in,” the government said in a statement, after the Clean Economy Jobs Act 2024 and Energy (Renewable Transformation and Jobs) Act 2024 passed on April 18.
“The move is complemented by strong action on emissions reductions—with laws passed today to legislate emissions reduction targets of 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, 75 percent below by 2035, and net zero by 2050.”...
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