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March 1, 2023 70 mins

Polly Hemming is a Senior Researcher at The Australia Institute's Climate & Energy Program.

Just this week she was giving evidence to a Parliamentary committee on the Labor Party's signature climate policy, the "Safeguard Mechanism" - which, I'm sorry to say, stinks. It stinks real bad. 

Here Polly lays out exactly just how much of a mess this policy is: how it's not designed to reduce emissions that are cooking the planet, but rather protect the profits and interests of the fossil fuel lobby. We also discuss the DEEPLY dodgy world of carbon offsets and the marketisation of the natural world, and wonder how this whole thing is going to play out politically. 

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Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger

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Polly's speech, "What is Climate Integrity?" 

Labor’s Safeguard policy is a mirror image of fossil industry greenwashing by Ketan Joshi for RenewEconomy.com.au

The Great Stock'n'Coal Swindle by Nick Feik 

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