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

I move amendment (1) on sheet 2015 revised:

(1) Schedule 1, item 4, page 5 (after line 8), after subsection 5B(8), insert:

(8A) In performing the function mentioned in subsection (6) in relation to a proposal, Infrastructure Australia must consider what impacts the proposal, if carried out, would have on:

(a) Australia's net greenhouse gas emissions, as reported in national inventory reports in accordance with:

(i) the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, done at New York on 9 May 1992, as amended and in force for Australia from time to time; and

(ii) the Paris Agreement, done at Paris on 12 December 2015, as amended and in force for Australia from time to time; and

(b) the achievement of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets; and

(c) any policy issues arising from climate change that Infrastructure Australia considers relevant to the proposal.

Note: The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is in Australian Treaty Series 1994 No. 2 ([1994] ATS 2) and the Paris Agreement is in Australian Treaty Series 2016 No. 24 ([2016] ATS 24). They could in 2023 be viewed in the Australian Treaty Series Library on the AustLII website (www.austlii.edu.au).