Andrew Wilkie (Clark, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction. The government claims Australia will meet its Paris agreement targets in a canter. However, the truth is that the government is relying on accounting tricks to meet our targets by counting artificially inflated credits left over from the Kyoto protocol—credits which most developed countries have agreed to reject. Meanwhile, official government figures show that our emissions have reached record highs and continue to rise, fuelling the climate emergency—the effects of which we're seeing in our backyard, with the drought and fires. In other words, our planet is cooking while the government cooks the books. Minister, why the denial and when will the government take real action to reduce emissions?

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