Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Minister, given that the developing nations, through their walkout and through the remarks of the Sudanese delegates, have made it clear that they will only sign a global treaty if it requires 40 per cent cuts from the industrialised world by 2020, isn’t it now true that the Australian government’s weak five to 25 per cent highly conditional target is neither ambitious nor credible and is a major obstacle to the global agreement being reached?