Australia’s Greens Eye Logging Ban in Role as Election Kingmaker

Australia’s Greens will demand the end of logging in native forests if upcoming federal elections finish without a clear winner and the party is invited to join the Labor government.

Under the Greens’ plan, the federal government would pay regional administrations A$500 million ($310 million) annually over 20 years to halt the practice, the party said. Ending the logging of indigenous woodlands and land clearing could cut emissions by 37.5 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, or 8.5% of the national total, it said in a statement.