Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes:

(i) That the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in Paris [COP 21] begins on Monday, 30 November 2015,

(ii) calls by the President of Kiribati, Mr Anote Tong, and other leaders for a global moratorium on new coal mines,

(iii) calls in the Suva Declaration on Climate Change from the Pacific Islands Development Forum and the Port Moresby Declaration on Climate Change from the Smaller Island State Leaders' for an ambitious international agreement to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius,

(iv) calls from civil society for Australia to commit at least $400 million per year to international climate finance that will allow developing countries to adapt to climate change and build the low carbon communities of the future, and

(v) That the Turnbull Government's pollution targets would keep Australia as the worst polluter per capita in the developed world by 2030; and

(b) calls on the Turnbull Government to:

(i) support a global agreement to stabilise global temperatures at 1.5 degrees by 2100,

(ii) raise Australia's weak and dangerous pollution reduction targets to meet this long term goal,

(iii) support a global moratorium on new coal mines, and

(iv) commit at least $400 million per year for four years to international climate finance.

Scott Ryan (Victoria, Liberal Party, Assistant Cabinet Secretary) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to make a short statement.

Gavin Marshall (Victoria, Deputy-President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Leave is granted for one minute

Scott Ryan (Victoria, Liberal Party, Assistant Cabinet Secretary) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

This is, again, grandstanding. Paris is about getting an agreement which puts us on the path to ensuring temperature rise stays below two degrees. Australia's target is strong and credible. It involves the largest reduction of per capita emissions of any major developed economy—the equal largest of G20 countries. Greens support for a global moratorium on new coalmines will condemn hundreds of millions of people to ongoing energy poverty. The Australian government is working to leverage all sources of finance to help developing countries address climate change. The Australian government's commitment to the Green Climate Fund builds on our existing support for climate resilience projects in developing countries, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region.

Gavin Marshall (Victoria, Deputy-President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that general business notice of motion No. 967 be agreed to.