Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

I know that Senator Milne and her colleagues are pressing for higher targets for Australia than those which have been announced by the government. They are entitled to press for those. The government’s view is that the targets we have set are both ambitious and credible. Our view is that what the world needs to do is to get on a path to a 450 parts per million stabilisation goal. That is consistent with an agreement that is capable of holding temperature rise to two degrees. It is the case, the science shows, that the higher the amount of concentration in the atmosphere the higher the likely temperature rise and the higher the risk to all nations, not just developing but developed nations such as Australia, which is why we need to take action on climate change.