1000 changes to climate change bill

Controversial climate change legislation has emerged from a parliamentary select committee with more than one thousand amendments.

The bill seeks to set up a greenhouse gas emission trading scheme and has been through a fraught process to take it to this stage.

It is still not clear whether the Government has the numbers to pass the bill into law, after National withdrew its support and called for longer process.

A majority on the committee voted for the bill to go back to Parliament, but National said in a minority report that it was seriously flawed and the process far too rushed.

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