John EnglartAustralian🇦🇺 Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen needs to adopt accurate fugitive emissions reporting methodology as part of regulations for coal and gas mines, to avoid the perverse outcome of some of Australia's largest Coal mines being allowed to increase emissions to 2030 and receive climate credits worth up to $180 million under the #SafeguardMechanism.
#FugitiveEmissions #Coal #GAS #Australia #FossilFuels #Methane #ClimateCrisis
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Perverse outcome: Largest coal mines can increase emissions and receive climate credits for doing so under Labor’s Safeguard Mechanism
New expert analysis has uncovered a perverse outcome of the Albanese Government’s Safeguard Mechanism Reforms which will allow at least ten large coal mines to actually increase their emissions, an…