Prepare to be shocked: Sunday's big carbon budget reveal

Prepare to be shocked: Sunday's big carbon budget reveal
Gavin Evans
There’ll be no light reading in the Climate Change Commission’s draft emissions budgets, due this Sunday.But expect a tighter carbon target for 2030, the use of international credits to help meet that, and a quiet urging to the government to focus more on renewable energy use across the economy and downplaying of the current administration’s 100 percent renewable electricity target by 2030.Don’t be surprised if a ban on imports of diesel and petrol cars is mooted for 2030-ish.Chair Rod Carr has previously signalled 100 p...

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