Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

This government believes in a holistic approach to Climate Change. The honourable member likes to pick things out—we've got this project, we've got that project. He doesn't acknowledge the sweeping reforms this government is putting into place, like finally ensuring that Australia has an offshore wind industry, declaring the first two zones and beginning the process for more, for delivering a capacity investment scheme to drive gigawatts of renewable energy investment across this country—something those opposite promised and never delivered—to give the safeguard reforms teeth to actually drive reforms that will be the equivalent of two-thirds of Australia's cars' emissions between now and 2030. And while we are talking about cars, the minister for transport and I are driving a fuel efficiency standard so that Australia finally catches up with the rest of the world and has a fleet that is low- and no-emissions and stops being the only major economy apart from Russia without fuel efficiency standards, which was something the previous government left us with.

I'm proud of the fact we've signed the Global Methane Pledge and joined the Climate Club, both well overdue as well. I am proud of the fact we've passed the electric vehicle discount, which has driven an uptake, in our short time in office so far, of electric vehicles from two per cent to eight per cent.

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