Ron Boswell (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I would like to ask a question on something a little different. I am very concerned about the money that is going to be paid to the developing countries for their mitigation actions, and I am told there is a recent UN report that calls for existing climate change funding of $21 billion to be astronomically increased to $500-$600 billion a year. I think you owe it to the Australian public to give us a price on what we are going to pay for asking the developing countries to become part of climate change action. I have asked you this question on a number of occasions and you have ducked it. I think you should be prepared to tell Australia what the cost is to developing countries. We are told it could be up to $600 billion a year. If that is the case, what is Australia’s share of that and how will that be worked out? On a population proportion, a world proportion, an area proportion—