Former Treasury secretary Ken Henry says the overhaul of the nation’s broken environmental laws should consider the inclusion of a climate trigger to ensure developmental approval of major projects takes into account their impact on global warming.
Henry, the chair of the Australian Climate and Biodiversity Foundation, said the trigger should be considered because Australia did not have an economy-wide carbon price.
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