Labor is due to reveal Australia’s much-anticipated 2035 emissions target. Here’s what you need to know

The 2035 target will be submitted to the UN as part of the country’s ‘nationally determined contribution’ – what the government says it can do to help the world meet goals in the 2015 Paris agreement. Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP

The scale of the Australian government’s climate action ambition for the next decade is expected to be set on Thursday with the anticipated release of its 2035 emissions reduction target.

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