Queensland Climate Transition Bill 2023* (Qld)

An Act to provide for reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel exports for Queensland, to provide for the development and implementation of the Queensland Climate Transition Strategic Plan and other measures to achieve the reduction targets, to establish the Queensland Climate Transition Authority and for related purposes The Parliament of Queensland enacts—

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Queensland Climate Transition Act 2023.

2 Main purposes of Act (1) The main purposes of this Act are to— (a) state targets for Queensland to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and exports of fossil fuels that contribute to meeting Australia's obligations under the Paris Agreement; and Note— The Paris Agreement includes targets that contribute to the global goals of— (a) holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels; and (b) pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. (b) provide for measures to be implemented to achieve the reduction targets; and (c) ensure employment stability and income security for workers and communities affected by measures implemented to achieve the reduction targets. (2) The purposes are to be primarily achieved by— (a) providing for the development, publication and implementation of the Queensland Climate Transition Strategic Plan; and (b) providing for activities for mining coal, gas or oil to end; and (c) establishing the Queensland Climate Transition Authority.

3 Act binds all persons This Act binds all persons, including the State.

4 Relationship with other Acts generally (1) If a provision of this Act is inconsistent with another Act, the provision prevails over the other Act to the extent of the inconsistency. (2) Subsection (1) does not affect a provision of this Act or another Act that expressly deals with the interaction between this Act and the other Act.