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This chapter outlines the evidence received on the Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022 (Consequential Amendments bill). It then discusses a range of other issues frequently raised by witnesses and submitters.
The Consequential Amendments bill
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As noted in chapter 1, the Consequential Amendments bill would amend a range of existing Commonwealth legislation to support the implementation of the Climate Change bill by '[embedding] Australia's greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets into the objects and functions of a range of Commonwealth entities and schemes'. It would require Commonwealth entities and schemes to consider Australia's emissions reduction targets and Australia's obligations under the Paris Agreement when exercising powers or performing functions.
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The Consequential Amendments bill would also provide that any updated targets set under the Paris Agreement would be similarly reflected in the relevant Australian frameworks.
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The Consequential Amendments bill would amend the relevant sections of the following Acts:
Australian Renewable Energy Agency Act 2011;
Building Energy Efficiency Disclosure Act 2010;
Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011;
Clean Energy Finance Corporation Act 2012;
Clean Energy Regulator Act 2011;
Climate Change Authority Act 2011;
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Act 1991;
Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards Act 2012;
Infrastructure Australia Act 2008;
National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007;
Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Act 2016;
Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Act 2021;
Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000; and
Science and Industry Research Act 1949.
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This section discusses the significant implications identified by submitters and witnesses, which relate to certain Commonwealth entities, as well as for some legislative frameworks and schemes, namely:
funding of projects by Export Finance Australia (EFA), the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) and Infrastructure Australia;
other legislation that could be covered by scope of the Consequential Amendments bill; and
the potential to embed emissions reduction targets across government.
Implications for Commonwealth funding of projects
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The Australia Institute highlighted that some Commonwealth agencies and laws have historically provided support for the fossil fuel industries, and argued that the Consequential Amendments bill, as drafted, does not prevent them from doing so in the future. It concluded that this could jeopardise Australia's commitment to reduce emissions. The submission highlighted that the obligation that the EFA and the NAIF 'have regard to' the emissions reduction target and the Paris Agreement would be far stronger if it required the alignment of investment and financing decisions with these commitments.
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During the hearings, questions were raised regarding the bills' impact on approved infrastructure projects as well as those in the pipeline for consideration.
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Mr Craig Doyle, the Chief Executive Officer of the NAIF, explained that where contracts had been finalised, approved projects would not be re-assessed and would proceed on the basis of the binding contracts. If the bills pass the parliament, projects that are in the development pipeline and yet to be finalised would be subject to the new legislative arrangements.
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Similarly, the Acting CEO of Infrastructure Australia, Mr Adam Copp, clarified that the legislation, if passed, would only impact future large-scale infrastructure projects, and would not affect current and existing projects that have already been assessed. He specifically noted that there would be no impact on the Western Sydney Airport development nor the construction of Inland Rail.
Possible additions to the Consequential Amendments bill
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The Australia Institute recommended that the Industry Research and Development Act 1986 (IRD Act) be included in the scope of the Consequential Amendments bill. It argued that the IRD Act has been used to support fossil fuel industries in the past, and so should be amended to align with any legislated emissions reduction targets and the Paris Agreement. The Australia Institute listed a number of legislative instruments that were registered in 2021 under the IRD Act, including the:
Refinery Upgrades Program;
Underwriting New Generation Investments Program;
Port Kembla Gas Generator Investment Development Grant Program;
Beetaloo Cooperative Drilling Program;
Boosting Australia's Diesel Storage Program;
CCS Development Program; and
CCUS Hubs and Technologies Program.
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Several submissions also recommended that the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) be added to the scope of the Consequential Amendments bill. For example, Greenpeace supported the addition of the EPBC Act to the Consequential Amendments bill framework:
… the EPBC Act should be amended (by inclusion in the Consequential Amendments Bill), to insert meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement (in particular as provided in Article 2) into the objects of the Act. We recognise that there is a broader process of EPBC Act Reform that will soon commence, and we welcome opportunities to feed into that process to ensure that our environmental protection laws are fit for purpose in light of ever-increasing climate change and climate impacts.
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The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) also observed that the EPBC Act is undergoing reform and is not currently noted as a consequential amendment. The ACF recommended that:
…the EPBC Act be included in Climate Bill 2022 consequential amendments once the existing process to update the EPBC Act ensures clear integration of climate commitments and climate impacts in all assessment and approval processes, including through implementation of a 'climate trigger'.
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The ACF also recommended that the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 (OPGGS Act) be included in the scope of the Consequential Amendments bill. The OPGGS Act and associated regulations provide the legal framework for the exploration and recovery of petroleum and greenhouse gas activities in Commonwealth waters (those areas that are more than three nautical miles from the territorial sea baseline). The OPGGS Act also establishes the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA). The ACF argued that the Consequential Amendments bill should amend the OPGGS Act to require NOPSEMA to consider Australia's greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets as part of its decision-making process.
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The Department of Industry, Science and Resources noted that NOPSEMA's:
…environmental assessment process has been assessed and endorsed under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and it considers emissions when assessing environmental approvals.
The industries that NOPSEMA regulates are also contributing to action on climate change – almost every offshore oil and gas operator has a net zero ambition, as well as a credible pathway to reach it...
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The Explanatory Memorandum for the Consequential Amendments bill states that there will be a review of the range of the government organisations that would be affected by that bill. The Minister for Climate Change and Energy, the Hon Chris Bowen MP, committed to this review being undertaken, and its findings presented to parliament by August 2023.
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In the Second Reading debate on the bills, Minister Bowen also committed to including the IRD Act in the review of the coverage of the Consequential Amendments bill, as well as the legislation governing the NOPSEMA.
Cross-government targets
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Several submitters noted that a key effect of the proposed legislation would be to require those institutions covered by the Acts identified in the Consequential Amendments bill to 'consider' Australia's emissions reduction targets when exercising their administrative powers.
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However, the National Environmental Law Association submitted that the Consequential Amendments bill should be revised to require that decisions taken by these institutions are 'consistent' with Australia's national targets.
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Dr Penny Sackett similarly recommended the Consequential Amendments bill be amended such that every institution covered by the specified Acts be directed to undertake their activities in a manner 'consistent' with:
…advancing an effective and progressive response to the urgent threat of climate change drawing on the best available scientific knowledge.
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Climateworks submitted that it supports the proposed legislation, but recommended the government 'go further in embedding an emissions reduction objective more fully across government operations'.
Other matters
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This section discusses a number of other issues raised in evidence, which go to broader issues outside the scope and intent of the bills, namely:
potential 'lawfare' stemming from the bills;
the use of native wood waste as a source of renewable energy;
proposals for nuclear to be considered as a source of clean energy;
the value of carbon capture and storage;
a 'just transition' for workers and communities affected by decarbonisation; and
the integrity of Australia's climate credit units.
Potential 'lawfare' stemming from the bills
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Some submitters raised concerns about the consequences of a potential increase in climate litigation, often termed by these groups as 'lawfare', resulting from passage of the bills. Lawfare was described by Tamboran Resources as:
…a tactic used by environmental activists who aim to defeat major projects through causing them unbearable cost, delays and additional risk that arises from constantly being taken to court… The practice is incompatible with true progress towards climate objectives, as it attempts to prevent incremental climate-improving projects from proceeding and leaving the Australian and global economy with a legacy of higher emissions overall.
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The Institute of Public Affairs made a prediction of an increase in litigation by environmental activists as a potential negative consequence of the bills, which they argued should be scrapped. The legislation of emissions reduction targets would, it argued, 'invite a torrent of legal activism by fringe environmental groups' that could block or impede projects subject to ministerial approval under the EPBC Act.
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DCCEEW officials expressed confidence that the bills would not create any risk of increased litigation in the EPBC Act approvals process:
The advice we have is that, because this bill doesn't limit or direct the way that any particular [environmental approval] decision needs to be made, it doesn't add to the context in which that kind of litigation can already be brought forward. So, from that perspective, we would say that there's no change between before and after the bill about the prospects that somebody might bring some kind of court action…
...much of the concern with respect to litigation risk relates to approval of projects. I note that there has been a lot of discussion with respect to approval of projects under statutory regimes, like state and territory environmental approvals and planning laws, as well as the [EPBC Act]. The [bill] under discussion today does not bind states and territories [proposed section 6], so it has no particular implications for state and territory decision-making, and the consequential amendments bill does not make any changes to the [EPBC Act]. So the bills, as presented, do not touch specifically on those big project decision-making processes.
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After the hearings, bp Australia, having noted the department's evidence, stated that the certainty the bills provide may actually decrease the risk of legal action:
Without attempting to speculate on possible future litigation, our hope is that by legislating the target and providing a transparent and accountable framework for its delivery, the legislation might even reduce the uncertainty that can sometimes be a driver for litigation.
Native wood waste as a source of renewable energy
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Biomass is a term used to describe any fuel derived from plants, including wood and wood processing waste. The Australian Forest Products Association suggested that the burning of biomass could be considered as an effective renewable source of energy in the transition to net zero:
Using biomass for energy generation can provide carbon-neutral renewable baseline power with no net increase in carbon if the cycle of growth and harvest is sustained. By contrast burning fossil fuels releases CO2 that has been locked up for millions of years. Bioenergy is unique among renewable energy technologies as it can be used across all three energy sectors (transport, electricity and heat).
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However, some environmental organisations raised concerns relating to native forest wood waste being burned as a source of 'sustainable' or 'renewable' energy. These concerns noted that wood waste derived from native forest biomass is recognised as an eligible renewable energy source under the provisions of the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000 (REE Act).
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In the view of these organisations, the burning of native wood waste as a fuel source is not ecologically sustainable, and actually increases emissions. For example, the ACF noted that:
the best way to draw down and sequester carbon was by protecting natural forests, which are already under threat from deforestation;
renewables could adequately meet our future energy needs without burning biomass, which would release a huge amount of damaging emissions; and
biomass is not only an inefficient fuel for electricity generation, but also a fuel that releases a large amount of damaging carbon emissions.
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Wilderness Australia submitted that native wood waste had been excluded as a source of renewable energy under the REE Act, until amendments made under the Abbott government:
The result [of these changes] has been an increasing number of proposals to use native forest biomass as a replacement for coal or use it to co-fire with coal in the name of clean and renewable energy–a claim that fails even the most basic common sense test given that any forest older than 30 years cannot recover from logging before 2050, and that generating energy from native forest biomass results in more [greenhouse gas] emissions per unit of energy than coal.
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Several stakeholders argued that the REE Act should be amended to exclude native wood waste biomass being considered as a source of renewable energy, as it had been previously.
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In the Second Reading debate on the bills in the House of Representatives, Minister Bowen noted that concerns over the REE Act's inclusion of native wood waste as a 'renewable' fuel had been raised by Mr Adam Bandt MP. Minister Bowen stated that he was willing to have further discussions with Mr Bandt to better understand the matter, and further noted that:
…the regulations already include a number of protections to ensure the sustainability of any such energy sources. It has never been a significant source of certificates under the legislation; however, I am more than happy to hear any concerns [Mr Bandt] has.
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Mr David Parker, Chair of the Clean Energy Regulator (CER), gave evidence that burning native forest wood waste to generate electricity was rare and generally not economically viable:
There is only one project that has been registered for LGC [large-scale renewable energy generation certificates] collation for native-wood waste and that is a project connected with the regeneration of a native forest over a mine site, the idea being to use trimmings from that project as the forest grows up. You need to trim these to allow the bigger trees to grow. To date, no LGCs have been created under that project. So, so far as native-wood waste is concerned, we have not seen wide-scale registration of projects and use of native-wood waste since that particular pathway was reinstated in 2015. The reason is that it's very difficult to make these things economic, essentially.
Nuclear energy
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The committee received evidence relating to nuclear generation as a potential future source of energy for Australia. Some witnesses and submitters saw a role for nuclear in a future Australian clean energy sector. However, others argued nuclear energy would be an expensive and politically fraught proposition for Australia, with many substantial barriers to its adoption.
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The committee took evidence from several advocates for the development of an Australian nuclear sector. For example, Dr Mark Ho, the Vice President of the Australian Nuclear Association, told the committee that Australia's legislative prohibitions on nuclear power plants would impede any effort to achieve significant emissions reduction:
Australia must be able to use all low-carbon technologies, including nuclear power, to create a future energy mix that satisfies the energy trilemma of affordability, reliability and low-carbon sustainability. Australia's almost unique amongst developed economies in having historic legislative prohibitions on nuclear power plants. Reducing carbon emissions by 2050 is too important to have legislation that arbitrarily excludes any consideration of nuclear power plants, which are a proven economic and scalable low-carbon energy technology.
Nuclear power is a very well-established technology producing dispatchable electricity with very low carbon emissions, and nuclear power plants are widely used in over 30 countries. The lifetime carbon emissions from nuclear power plants are similar to emissions from solar and onshore wind facilities, and nuclear power plants themselves emit no carbon dioxide. We cannot afford to ignore the potential of nuclear power to reduce carbon emissions. The legislative prohibitions must be removed so that nuclear power can be considered on its merits.
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Dr Geoff Bongers, a representative of Gamma Technology Australia, told the committee that wholesale reform of the energy sector to reduce emissions should consider a suite of technologies, including nuclear generation alongside other renewable forms of generation.
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Nuclear for Climate Australia (NCA) submitted that the emissions from nuclear were lower than any other form of energy generation. Summarising United Nations, European Union Joint Research, and Électricité de France research, NCA noted that 'nuclear energy has lower emissions than any other generating source including wind and solar'.
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Regarding the negative perceptions that many everyday Australians have to nuclear power, Dr Ho of the Australian Nuclear Association told the committee that:
I've been seeing the transition and the momentum swing towards nuclear power. Say about five years ago, if you looked at the general numbers in the polls, you might have had 35 per cent to 40 per cent of people in support of nuclear power. Now the numbers are more balanced to about 50-50, in the same order of what you will find in the UK, which already has established nuclear power plants. I think a lot of that is brought about by people's understanding of the need to act on climate change and the manner in which nuclear power can supply baseload low-carbon electricity.
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However, a number of stakeholders disagreed. Mr Tennant Reed of the Australian Industry Group outlined a significant barriers for the adoption of nuclear power generation in Australia, including the lack of: skills, supply chains, a regulatory framework, physical infrastructure, and waste handling facilities, as well as the difficulty of overcoming widespread negative perceptions of nuclear power. He further suggested that nuclear should not be ruled out as a potential source, even if renewables would appeared to be a cheaper option:
It doesn't make a great deal of sense for it to be simply illegal to develop nuclear energy. It does appear that nuclear energy will not be cost competitive in Australia, at least based on technologies that have a track record in the marketplace. But we should be open to technological surprise. There are high hopes for the next generation of small modular reactors. We will see how they perform in the markets where they are being commissioned. But at this stage it looks like, for bulk energy, renewables will be the cheapest source of that.
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Alongside the high unit cost of nuclear generation, Ms Anna Freeman, the Policy Director of the Clean Energy Council, noted that it would take a very long time for Australians to change their well-ingrained negative perceptions:
Nuclear is many times more expensive than solar and wind, and just cannot compete on economic grounds… It would need incredible amounts of support, but on top of that the social licence challenges associated with nuclear would, I think, be such that you would not get anything off the ground for decades.
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Professor Frank Jotzo, the Head of Energy at the Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions at the Australian National University, suggested nuclear could be an option for low-emissions generation in some overseas countries, particularly those with high populations, large energy demands including from heavy industry, and adverse conditions for renewable energy. However, in Australia, he stated it would be an expensive long-term proposition in comparison to wind and solar generation:
The thing with nuclear is that in the Western world and for Western expectations of safety standards new nuclear projects are very, very expensive in comparison to just about any other energy source. The same would, of course, hold true for Australia. Any technology other than wind and solar in Australia, at this point in time and likely in the foreseeable future, is at an enormous cost disadvantage relative to those renewables.
Carbon capture and storage
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Some evidence proposed that carbon capture and storage (CCS) would be an essential part of a net zero future. Ms Tracey Winters, Strategic Adviser on External Affairs for Santos, gave evidence that:
When it comes to carbon capture and storage, it's very perplexing when people say there is no evidence for it, because there are in fact 27 CCS projects operating around the world today, storing 40 million tonnes of carbon dioxide every single year. That is a fact. The other thing… is that the [International Energy Agency (IEA)] and the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)] say that you cannot achieve net zero by 2050 without that technology. In fact, the IEA's net zero scenario says that you need to store about 7.6 billion tonnes a year by 2050. But 17 of the 18 IPCC scenarios say that you have to store more than that—between 8.1 and
18.6 billion tonnes every year. And not one of the IPCC scenarios has no CCS in it as a technology for emissions reduction.
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Following the hearings, Santos updated the committee on the status of global CCS facilities and projects. Of the 27 operational projects worldwide, 21 are used for enhanced oil recovery and only 6 provide dedicated geological storage. Of these projects, one resides in Australia: the Gorgon CCS project located in offshore waters of the Western Australia coast. This project has stored six million tonnes of carbon dioxide since 2019.
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Some evidence suggested that CCS was largely unproven technology that still needs research and development before it can be deployed effectively, in contrast to methods that were already fit-for-purpose. For example, Mr Wayne Smith, Government Relations Manager of the Smart Energy Council stated:
Carbon capture and storage is a white elephant, particularly when it comes to hydrogen—and we're seeing it already. What's happening in hydrogen—and we know this both in Australia and internationally—is people are investing in renewable hydrogen. That's the future. It just makes sense from an economic perspective to invest in renewable hydrogen.
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Ms Beth Mitchell of Beyond Zero Emissions took a similar view of CCS:
Australia has abundant, low-cost renewable energy. With carbon capture and storage, our position is that we need to start deploying the technology that is ready now, that can be easily deployed and that is proven in the space.
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Professor Matthew England of the Australian Academy of Science was similarly sceptical of value of CCS:
I would put a caveat, a big warning, around carbon capture and storage. Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull famously, at a [University of New South Wales] forum a couple of years ago, said quite clearly to the audience that he spent a lot of money exploring carbon capture for Australia and that it wasn't viable with the geological structures we have. I do understand there are new technologies coming along that are carbon neutral and that maybe have some merit.
I'm all for investment in these negative carbon emissions, but…at the moment we don't have scalable technologies that can do that. Of course let's keep exploring, but it is foolhardy to take our foot off the pedal of stopping the emissions and imagining we're going to have a silver bullet down the track that will solve this for us because all indications are that we will not. We will have the means to take out some carbon dioxide, but it's a tiny fraction of our emissions, and mitigation—the stopping of the emissions now—is the most cost-effective way to deal with this problem.
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Professor David Karoly gave evidence that, despite substantial government investment, CCS was not yet viable, and that there were better alternatives:
… it's critically important to recognise that within Australia there has been federal government investment in research on carbon capture and storage, and that has led to no large-scale commercially viable carbon capture and storage solutions in Australia, despite financial investment, for more than 20 years. It is much easier, unfortunately, to pay for and use batteries or other—if you like—water resource related dams like the Snowy 2.0 plan that had been set up to do it. These are much more tested and reliable solutions.
Just transition
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Many submissions called for the bills to include the workforce equity considerations in the preamble of the Paris Agreement:
Taking into account the imperatives of a just transition of the workforce and the creation of decent work and quality jobs in accordance with nationally defined development priorities.
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Submissions from several trade unions supported the establishment of a national Energy Transition Authority to oversee and support a fair and orderly transition for workers and their communities through the decarbonisation transition of the energy sector. The role envisaged would be to minimise the socio-economic impact of power plant closures by managing this transition and delivering on plans for the future prosperity of affected regions.
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The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) submitted that poorly targeted and inequitable policies to reduce emissions were disproportionately benefiting people with wealth, choice, and control while people on low incomes were paying disproportionately more. ACOSS said the bills should require the government and agencies to consider social and economic inclusion in developing policies, procedures, and processes to achieve emissions reduction targets.
Integrity of Australian carbon credit units
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An Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) represents the storage or avoided emission of the equivalent of one tonne of carbon dioxide. ACCUs are issued by the CER as part of the former government's Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) and are logged electronically in the Australian National Registry of Emissions Units. The unit creator can sell their credits back to the CER or to the private sector, thus establishing a market for carbon credits.
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The Australia Institute submitted that the ERF had been operating as the sole emissions reduction policy under the former government, arguing that the scheme has proven to be unfit for this purpose. The Australia Institute also pointed to evidence that up to 80 per cent of ACCUs 'do not represent real or additional abatement'. The Australia Institute further noted that concerns had been raised regarding the methods and regulation of ACCUs as well as the integrity of the components of the ERF, concluding:
Purchased by government, the outcome is that hundreds of millions of dollars of public money are wasted, and Australia is no closer to meeting its climate targets.
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Consequently, the Australia Institute submitted that these failures in the design and implementation of the ACCUs had increased private sector production costs whilst doing nothing to curtail polluting activities.
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Several submitters also questioned the effectiveness of certain offset projects covered by ACCUs and the viability of using offsets to reduce emissions.
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On 1 July 2022, Minister Bowen announced a review of ACCUs, stating:
Concerns have been raised recently about several aspects of Australia's carbon crediting system, including the integrity of its key methods and the Australian carbon credit units issued under it.
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Minister Bowen announced that the independent review panel would include four experts and would be led by former Chief Scientist, Professor Ian Chubb. The review is scheduled to report to government by the end of 2022, and will consider:
governance arrangements and legislative requirements;
the integrity of the scheme and its methods;
the extent to which carbon projects support positive environmental, social, and economic outcomes for agriculture, biodiversity, and the participation of First Nations people;
opportunities to maximise non-carbon benefits of projects; and
requirements for the use of carbon credit units under Climate Active (a partnership between the government and businesses).
Committee view
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Regarding the Consequential Amendments bill, the committee notes the evidence of agency heads that the legislation, if passed, would have no impact on major infrastructure projects that had completed their respective approvals process and reached contractual close.
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The committee notes the various suggestions to include other Commonwealth agencies within the Consequential Amendments bill. In this regard the committee supports Minister Bowen's commitment to a review of other Commonwealth entities and schemes, to determine if the coverage of the Consequential Amendments bill should be expanded. The Minister has committed to respond to parliament by August 2023.
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On this basis, the committee supports the passage of the Consequential Amendments bill.
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The committee recommends that the Senate pass the Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2022.
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The committee notes the various other matters outlined above, which were raised during the inquiry. As this inquiry is examining framework legislation to enshrine Australia's emissions reduction targets, the committee views the details of these matters, while important, to be beyond the scope of the bills currently under consideration. If amendments of the nature presented were to be added to the current bills, it would fundamentally change the scope of the bills and significantly delay their passage.
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The committee notes the various broader reforms that are underway to underpin the framework legislation, which are detailed elsewhere in this report. In this context, there is an opportunity for further legislative and policy development outside of the current bills.
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Some of the suggestions raised in this chapter, while not directly within the scope of the bills, are nonetheless matters the government may wish to consider further. In particular, the issues of burning native forest wood waste and securing an equitable transition for workers are relevant to other areas of government policy and may merit further examination.
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The committee recommends that the government, subsequent to the passage of the bills, undertake further consultation on possible legislative amendments and appropriate policy responses, including reviewing the use of native forest wood waste for renewable energy and the transition arrangements for Australian workers impacted by decarbonisation.
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Finally, the committee re-emphasises its support for the genuinely collaborative manner in which Minister Bowen has approached the passage of the bills through the House of Representatives. The committee encourages the same respectful process in the Senate debate.
Senator Karen Grogan
Chair