Senate debates

Tuesday, 7 November 2023

Bills

Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Amendment (Using New Technologies to Fight Climate Change) Bill 2023; In Committee

1:29 pm

Photo of Jenny McAllisterJenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Pocock, we've had this discussion here, and I've had it with other senators in estimates as well.

We've established the safeguard mechanism, which puts in place a cap on the largest of Australia's emitters. That cap sits over the top of a range of the projects that you're concerned about and will require those projects to reduce their emissions over time using—

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