Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Wong. The government has said that it would go to a 15 per cent reduction target in greenhouse gas emissions if there were a global agreement, ‘where all major economies commit to substantially restrain emissions’ and ‘all developed countries take on comparable reductions to that of Australia’. Will the minister tell the Senate how the government defines a ‘major economy’ for the purposes of its target commitment? Can she also tell us what is meant by ‘substantially restrain emissions’ and also which countries are regarded as major economies by the government’s definition?