The Nature Conservation Council urges the NSW Government to support the ALP’s proposal make emissions targets legally binding by enshrining them in law. [1]
The NSW Government has committed to reach net zero emissions by 2050 and halve them by 2030.
“We have applauded the NSW Government for setting ambitious emissions reduction targets but have always been concerned that they are purely aspirational and not legally binding,” Nature Conservation Council Chief Executive Chris Gambian said.
“There is currently nothing to prevent a new government or a new leader scrapping or reducing these targets at the stroke of a pen.
“Enshrining them in legislation makes it much harder for a future government to crab-walk away from these commitments to the people of NSW.
“Legislating these targets would also provide greater certainty for clean-energy investors and for the general public.
“I would urge the NSW Government to either support Labor’s bill when it comes before the house or put up their own, along the lines of Victoria’s 2017 Climate Change Act.”
References
[1] NSW Labor to propose new legislation to protect net zero emissions target, SMH, 6-11-21. NSW Labor wants emissions reduction targets enshrined in law, AUS, 6-11-21