Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and International Security) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that the State of the environment report released today shows that Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions will rise by 22 per cent by 2020? Is the Prime Minister aware that, if every country’s emissions were to rise by 22 per cent, global temperatures would increase by up to four degrees, fuelling extreme weather events and bushfires, damaging Australia’s environment and leaving our children and grandchildren with a lower living standard than we currently enjoy? Prime Minister, when will you start taking responsibility for acting on climate change?

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