Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Senator Ludwig. I refer the minister to Australia's May 2012 submission regarding the application of a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, which states that Australia:

… has consistently maintained that a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol must be balanced by an agreement with legally binding mitigation commitments by all major economies.

I ask the minister whether such an agreement with legally binding mitigation commitments by all major economies has been reached and ratified by all such major economies.