Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Firstly, there was much in that question with which I don't necessarily agree. But I do agree with the proposition that those who are most vulnerable in this world are most vulnerable to climate change. Where you already have poverty and where you already have poor levels of infrastructure and poor levels of economic resilience, those communities and those nations are far more vulnerable to climate change and far less able to respond.

I would make the point, as I made when I had the privilege of being Australia's climate minister, that pointing the finger at each other when it comes to resolving the global action on climate change is less productive than finding an agreement about how we start to reduce emissions. The senator is right that the vast majority of emissions already in the atmosphere are as a result of developed countries. I would make the point going forward that— (Time expired)