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

I do not know if that calculation has been done but, if I may say so, that would be quite misleading because we are going through a process leading up to Copenhagen and then at Copenhagen where countries are progressively making commitments. You might make a judgment this week and the level of ambition in international pledges would be different next week or the week after depending on who pledged, and I laid out some of the pledges on the table for you. For example, what China’s notable margin is in its emissions per unit of GDP or its emissions intensity targets will be a very significant factor, because that will give an indication of what sort of change from business as usual China will be striving for. It would be somewhat misleading now—and frankly, inaccurate—to try and construct current pledges or current commitments and to work out what that would lead to when we know the whole purpose of Copenhagen is to try and get a clear commitment to global action, and there are a number of countries which have said they will set a target and they will come to Copenhagen with targets. But they have not yet done so.