Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

The Turnbull government is delivering on the Emissions Reduction Fund and the auctions under that fund, which are genuinely reducing emissions in Australia. The first two Emissions Reduction Fund auctions secured nearly 93 million tonnes of emissions reductions, at an average price of $13.12 per tonne. This is vastly more efficient and effective than anything that was achieved under Labor's carbon tax. This includes 35 bushfire prevention projects in our northern savannas, which will reduce emissions by nearly seven million tonnes from those projects alone. Australian researchers have demonstrated that they are at the forefront of energy and climate innovation. For example, by 2018 our researchers will develop the technology that is applying in over 60 per cent of the world's solar cells. We are also supporting the French '4 per 1000' soils for food security and climate initiative, because we recognise all that can be achieved from soil carbon efficiency. (Time expired)