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

Again, these are exactly some of the matters which are currently being negotiated and I invite the senator to consider some of the submissions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations where these issues are canvassed not only by Australia but also by other economies. We in this government do believe that we have to seek to have agreed, through the international process, a range of factors against which comparability ought to be considered. There are different views about what those factors should be, and the Australian government is participating constructively in the negotiations that deal with these issues. Comparability of effort is an important principle. There is a way to go yet to get international agreement about what the factors are to which any international agreement would have regard when considering comparability.