Supplementary submission: Climate Change (National Framework for Adaptation and Mitigation) Bills 2020
Climate Change (National Framework for Adaptation and Mitigation) Bill 2020 and Climate Change (National Framework for Adaptation and Mitigation) (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2020
On 1 February 2021, the Law Council appeared before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on the Environment and Energy for its inquiry into the Climate Change (National Framework for Adaptation and Mitigation) Bill 2020 and the Climate Change (National Framework for Adaptation and Mitigation) (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2020.
This supplementary submission addresses two issues that were raised by committee members during the Law Council’s appearance at the public hearing. The committee requested the Law Council’s further views on:
- ‘why it is important to legislate a target, to lock it in beyond a political cycle of political parties at election time, and have a long-term legislated target so that it remains regardless of what's happening in the political space? Obviously acts can be repealed but, on the whole, by having continuity beyond an election cycle, what does that do for a legal framework?’; and
- whether the Law Council has a view on ‘one criticism of the bills…that has come, that it's adding a layer of an administrative burden or a layer of administration to our current scheme’.
You can read the full submission below.
Last Updated on 09/04/2021
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