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

My question is for the minister for climate change. Can the minister explain what purpose it will serve for Australia to enter into a carbon tax when our emissions are only 1.4 per cent but, in comparison, China's carbon emissions will rise by 496 per cent and India's emissions will rise by 350 per cent by 2020? Even if we reduce emissions by an effective 30 per cent on a business-as-usual basis by 2020, won't it be utterly meaningless in the context of projected massive growth in emissions, particularly from China, India and Indonesia?