Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. It follows his repeated statements in question time today that Australia will meet its Kyoto targets and his repeated criticisms of those European and other states who are not meeting theirs. Is the Prime Minister aware of figures released last night by the secretariat for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that Australia’s greenhouse emissions rose by 25.1 per cent between 1990 and 2004? Doesn’t this United Nations report show that Australia, on current performance, will not meet its Kyoto target?

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