Adam Bandt (Melbourne, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. The birthplace of democracy, Athens, is on fire and so is the west coast of the United States. Europe is flooding and, here in Australia, our own bitter experience means that we know the world is in a climate emergency. Tonight the world's scientists will release the latest IPCC report, warning that the world is heating faster than feared and that we may cross catastrophic tipping points from which there is no return and hit 1½ degrees in just a few years. Prime Minister, your 2030 targets are a death sentence for our country. Will you heed this warning and join the US and the UK by at least doubling our 2030 climate targets? Or will you keep failing to protect Australia and its people from the climate crisis?

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