George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

I have already explained to you, Senator Waters, although you seem to be reluctant to listen, how the export of coal from the Carmichael mine to India will cut pollution in itself. But of course the Australian government is taking to the Paris Climate Change Conference one of the most ambitious reduction targets in the world, in fact the most ambitious per capita emissions reduction target in the world, which will, by 2030, decrease our emissions of 2005 levels by between 26 per cent and 28 per cent.