Richard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is for the Minister for Education and Training representing the Minister for Environment and Energy, Senator Birmingham. John Howard used to say that politics is governed by the iron law of arithmetic. Well, Minister, climate science is no different. By extending the life of coal-fired power plants, there's no way that Australia can meet pollution targets that we agreed to in Paris. Minister, when will the government formally notify the signatories to the Paris agreement that it has no desire to honour its side of the agreement to keep global warming at a level where we have at least a fighting chance of saving the Great Barrier Reef?