Adam Bandt (Melbourne, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Environment and Energy. At the recent global climate summit in Marrakech, the United States climate envoy said that, because of rapid melting in Antarctica, current levels of global warming could see 1½ metres of sea level rise by 2050. In other words, even if the world stopped all pollution tomorrow, by the time a child born today reaches her 30s she would live in a world where the sea is 1½ metres higher than now. This is not a green group or climate activist saying this; it is the US government. Minister, given our coastal capital cities, what would be the impacts on Australians' homes, businesses and infrastructure if sea levels rise by 1½ metres?

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