Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

If you look at what the US have committed to, you can see that Senator Birmingham does not do justice to it in his question. If you look at the comparability of Australia's efforts on a range of indicators, Australia's 2020 targets are comparable to those of other advanced economies, including the US. They have a 2020 target of 17 per cent below 2005 and a percentage change from 1990 of minus 2, a percentage change in per capita emissions of minus 29 and a cut in per capita emissions in 2020, implied by targets, of 17. That is what the US is seeking to achieve. But again it is global action that is being undertaken—