FoEA Respond to Government’s Carbon Announcement
Yesterday’s announcement of the Multi Party Climate Change Committee (MPCCC) agreed pathway of an interim price ‘hard-wired’ to become an emissions trading scheme takes Australia in the wrong direction says Friends of the Earth Australia and away from real solutions to the climate crisis.
Climate justice spokesperson Holly Creenaune said “We’re concerned this is a resurrection of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) which was rejected in the Senate and failed to win public support because it was worse than doing nothing.
“Carbon trading does not work – across the world cap-and-trade has failed to reduce emissions harmed local communities and delayed real action; whilst delivering huge profits to polluters and financial speculators.
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