Senate debates

Tuesday, 2 September 2025

Questions without Notice

Climate Change

2:23 pm

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

Minister, will the government heed the call of the 20 Australian and global scientists who published this paper, including Dr Petra Heil from the Australian Antarctic division in Hobart, that stabilising the Earth's climate with minimal overshoot of 1.5 degrees is critical? Are you confident your 2035 climate target will be ambitious enough to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate these very concerning broadscale changes in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean?

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