Senate debates

Wednesday, 18 October 2017

Questions without Notice

Energy

2:21 pm

Photo of Peter Whish-WilsonPeter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

David Blowers, in The Conversation today, stated that the National Energy Guarantee is a second-best option and that our previous working carbon price was the best policy option as it avoided the need for a complicated emissions and reliability guarantee. Your Energy Security Board has recommended that carbon credit units and international units could be permitted to meet a proportion of the retailer's guarantee. Minister, have you returned to carbon trading? What proportion of Australian emissions reductions will you allow to be achieved by international carbon credits? (Time expired)

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