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

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. That is an extraordinary position—the minister is going to go to a global conference in which other countries, including the EU, have announced their targets, and she is going to not tell the conference and then fly home and announce it when she gets back here.

Part of the aim of the Poznan conference is also to reduce emissions from deforestation. I ask the minister: in Australia, where deforestation—logging and burning of forests and woodlands—creates 17 to 20 per cent of the gross national pollution of the atmosphere with greenhouse gases, what is the minister’s proposal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from that extraordinarily polluting sector at Poznan?