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Miliband said it would be "negligence" to future generations not to have dialogue with the country, given it is the world's biggest carbon emitter.

“The bottom line is this is a giveaway to emitters, just letting them off the hook entirely,” said Rachel Cleetus, senior policy director with the Climate and Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Albanese's government enshrined into law a boosted emissions cut target, and introduced a mechanism that acts as a carbon cap for the country's biggest emitters - though experts say more ambition is needed.

Or they can detect the smaller and more spread-out emitters that are much more common, such as cattle farms.

Critics of the power station have called it one of the UK's leading emitters of the climate warming gas CO2, but Drax disputes that description.