Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Exactly as the minister says, the world is seeking at Poznan to establish a stabilisation of emissions which is globally accepted. I ask: is the Australian government’s position 350 parts per million carbon dioxide equivalent, which is safe; 450 parts per million, which is at best dangerously unknown in its outcome; or 550 parts per million, which even Professor Garnaut said will lose us the Barrier Reef, the winter snow on the Alps and much of the productivity of the Murray-Darling Basin, Ningaloo et cetera? What is the government’s position, if it is going to have leadership on this matter, going to Poznan, and will the minister rule out the 550-parts-per-million option? (Time expired)