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

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Minister Ludwig. In light of the terrifying scientific evidence presented to the United Nations climate talks overnight of rapidly-increasing methane emissions from warming permafrost and approaching irreversible tipping points, if we stay on current track of at least three to four degrees, can the minister confirm that in Durban last year the government accepted that the global warming potential of methane is 25 times that of carbon dioxide, up from 21 times, and that the government agreed to adjust our national greenhouse emission accounts accordingly?