Kate Lundy (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying, coal fired generation is also down and the amount of electricity generated by burning coal is down over seven per cent in the National Electricity Market.

The updated The critical decade report by the Climate Commission shows that there is now even stronger evidence than ever before of a rapidly changing climate. It finds that greenhouse gas emissions are now at their highest level in over one million years and are increasing at a faster rate than ever recorded. This report is a stark reminder that this is a critical decade for Australia and the world, and we take its advice extremely seriously. That is why we are taking the action we are to transition to cleaner energy sources and why we have set up an independent Climate Change Authority to make recommendations about the right pollution cap and carbon budget for our country.

The report urges government to make the switch from emissions intensive fossil fuel sources to renewable energy, and that is exactly what our clean energy future package is doing, combined with Labor's renewable energy target. I have already outlined some of the positive results we are seeing. (Time expired)