For more than ten years, the Greens and the Labor Party have been blaming each other for holding back progress on climate action.
Now, things have shifted — Labor’s new emissions reduction target will almost certainly become legislation, after the Greens announced that they’ll support it.
But that support has only come after fierce negotiations and several concessions from the Albanese government.
Today, national correspondent at The Saturday Paper Mike Seccombe on the high-stakes political games that are going to decide our climate future.
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Guest: National correspondent for The Saturday Paper, Mike Seccombe.
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