A "climate trigger" that could be used to block coal and gas projects has been formally excluded from the government's overhaul of Australia's environment laws, minister Murray Watt has confirmed.

The decision not to write a "trigger" into the laws that could block projects that would worsen carbon emissions will anger the Greens and likely cut off that pathway for the government to pass its long-awaited rewrite of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.

The government instead will force major projects to report their carbon emissions under the laws for the first time, as well as provide plans for how they intend to reduce those emissions to net zero by 2050.

"This is an important step forward to provide the community with confidence that proponents are taking thei

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