Russell Broadbent (McMillan, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the admission last week by the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency that the Kyoto agreement has collapsed. I quote the minister:

You have to look at the fact that Japan, Canada and Russia have said that they won't be in a second commitment period … That covers maybe 15 to 17 per cent at most of global greenhouse emissions of the second commitment period of Kyoto.

Why won't the government now revise the modelling for carbon tax, which assumes comparable carbon pricing in other major economies from 2015-16?

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