Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Is it a fact that China admits to 23 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions? There is a fact you could answer, Minister. I also refer to the fact that, in the United States, there is no prospect that cap-and-trade legislation will pass before 2013, at the very earliest, in the wake of the fourth defeat of cap-and-trade legalisation in seven years. Given that the United States is responsible for 20 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions, does the government have any forecast of what the US emissions will be in 2020? (Time expired)