Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I'm sure! We as a government have set out our goals and our targets very clearly. We've beaten Kyoto I and Kyoto II and we're going to meet and beat the Paris emissions reduction targets that we took to the last election. We went to the last election and we said that we would reduce emissions by 2030 by 26 per cent to 28 per cent. As of right now those emissions are down by more than 20 per cent. Australia has one of the highest—if not the highest—rates of rooftop solar take-up anywhere in the world. We are seeing a flow, a waterfall, of investment into lower-emissions technologies and renewable technologies in this country like we've never seen before. These are the results of the policies that the government has been putting in place to drive down emissions while at the same time taking down electricity prices and investing in the reliability of our grid as we go forward.

We on this side of the House understand that it's about getting the balance right. You've got to get the balance of affordability and reliability while getting your emissions reductions down, as we are achieving. The minister for energy has led the way here with the reforms to the National Energy Market. He's led the way with the lower-emissions technology road map. He's led the way, with me and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, in securing technology partnerships with Germany and many other countries to ensure that we're working together to get the technology that Australia needs so that we can meet our emissions reductions targets and prepare our economy for the global challenges ahead. Our policy's pretty straightforward: technology, not taxes, to reduce emissions.

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