Recent reports suggest that the Western Australian Labor government is planning on pushing ahead with its net-zero plan but without emission reductions targets.

The federal Labor government has set a reduction target of 62–70% below 2005 by 2035. WA and the Northern Territory are the only two state and territory governments to not to have emissions reductions targets.

Instead of emission reductions, WA Labor’s misnamed “Clean Energy Powerhouse Bill” shifts the focus away from the expansion of renewable technologies, to carbon capture and storage and net-zero trading.

Socialist Alliance (SA) WA Senate candidate Sam Wainwright told Green Left this approach is “performative”.

“Net-zero trading is a newer idea among the listed technologies. It describes an expansion of renewable-powered commodities that can be traded with countries that would normally produce the commodity by........

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