Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Pratt for the supplementary question. As I said, this delivers on our commitment in the white paper to implement energy efficiency policies ahead of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. Today’s investment will reduce emissions by a total in excess of 40 million tonnes at 2020. It is an investment to help Australian households do their bit in meeting Australia’s targets for reducing carbon pollution. As you know, Mr President, legislation for the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme will come forward later this year, and through this scheme the government is proposing to reduce Australia’s carbon pollution by between five and 15 per cent by 2020—that is, a reduction of between 34 and 41 per cent in the carbon footprint of every Australian man, woman and child on 1990 levels. Now, we have been upfront about the additional upfront costs households will face as a result of putting a cost on carbon pollution— (Time expired)