It won’t stop climate catastrophe. So why are the Greens voting for it?
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Adam Bandt stood in front of TV cameras this week and announced a decision that could define the future of the Greens.
The party will support Labor’s climate policy, after winning a series of concessions, even though it means new coal and gas can go ahead and it doesn’t meet the pleas of climate scientists around the world.
So what does the deal mean? Will it make a difference? And is something better than nothing?
Today, national correspondent for The Saturday Paper Mike Seccombe, on why Australia’s new climate policy is still behind the science.
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