Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) recognises the commitment of the world's two largest emitters, the People's Republic of China and the United States of America, to limit and drive down their greenhouse pollution over the coming years;

(b) supports their cooperative approach to use international fora such as the G20 and the United Nations to ensure a global agreement is secured in the Paris Conference of the Parties in 2015;

(c) acknowledges these governments' preferred approach to drive down pollution is through market based, cap and trade systems; and

(d) insists the Government stop making misleading statements that its 'direct action' plan is capable of significantly driving down Australia's emissions or is anyway comparable to the Obama Administration's Clean Power Plan.

Question agreed to.