Submission to the Carbon Leakage Review

Submissions | 15 August 2024

Manufacturing Australia supports the Federal Government’s efforts to identify and minimise carbon leakage.

For many of Australia’s largest and most strategically significant manufacturers, carbon leakage presents both a risk to the competitiveness of existing operations, and a disincentive to future investments in low emissions technologies and production processes.

Acknowledging and remedying differentials between Australia’s emissions reduction policies and those of our main import competitors is necessary to support the competitiveness of Australian manufacturing as it adopts lower emissions production technologies over the coming decades.

Read the full submission here.