Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Melbourne for his question, and I can inform him that this government is taking the challenge of climate change very seriously. In fact, the foreign minister and I recently went to Morocco, and we were representing Australia after having ratified the Paris Agreement and our commitment to a 26 to 28 per cent reduction by 2030 on 2005 levels. On a per-capita basis, that is one of the highest in the G20. Australia was praised for the work it is doing in carbon capture and storage, praised for the work it is doing in innovation and praised for the partnership it has struck with countries like Indonesia to work on deforestation. Unlike those opposite and unlike your party, I say to the member for Melbourne, we are being responsible in our targets. We have one eye on energy security and another on energy affordability, while we are also transitioning to a lower emissions future.

It is okay for the member for Melbourne to sip on his latte in the streets of Brunswick, to put his sandals up on the seat and say—

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