David Pocock (ACT, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you for that, Minister. Given your talk about the Albanese government taking climate change seriously and about things that are not mutually exclusive, we know that something that is mutually exclusive is keeping warming below two degrees and expanding the fossil fuel industry. If we're going to listen to the IPCC and the International Energy Agency, those two things cannot both happen. We can expand the fossil fuel industry and we can kiss the Great Barrier Reef—at least 95 per cent of the Great Barrier Reef—goodbye. Faced with those things absolutely being mutually exclusive, I'd also like to say the IPCC says that adaptation beyond two degrees is going to be incredibly difficult, if not bordering on impossible, for many parts of the world. If that is the case, will the government explicitly rule out the use of this sea-dumping legislation being used by new projects to offset their scope 1 and scope 2 emissions and essentially new projects happening under the safeguard mechanism? Will be government rule that out?