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Enough fiddling: The ETS needs to be allowed to do its job
Friday 10 May 24 10:30am
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| PHOTO: Forest Stewardship Council |
By Andrew Cushen
OPINION: While it isn’t perfect, the Emissions Trading Scheme is the only tool in our climate response that is working at the scale we need to meet the challenge in front of us. Turning this off or restricting it will impact us all environmentally, socially, and economically.
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