Senate debates

Wednesday, 27 November 2019

Questions without Notice

Climate Change

2:20 pm

Photo of Larissa WatersLarissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Australia's current Paris goals have us on track for three degrees of warming, and the UNEP report says of Australia's climate policies, firstly, that we have 'no major policy tool to encourage emissions reduction'—and that's a quote—and, secondly, that the latest projection published by the government shows that emissions would remain largely unchanged to 2030. Does your government accept your own department's advice that pollution won't go down in this critical decade?

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