It’s not perfect, but the Labor-Greens climate deal should limit emissions and fossil fuels. That matters

The agreement delivers important changes to the safeguard mechanism. But there is still a lot of work to do

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The safeguard mechanism is a better policy to deal with major industrial greenhouse gas emissions after a deal between the Albanese government and the Greens.

It is not perfect, it is needlessly complicated and there are still things to be ironed out about how some of the headline changes will work. But it is an improvement.

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