Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I can advise the Senate that Australia has a proud record of meeting our emissions targets. We beat our first Kyoto target by 128 million tonnes. Under our existing policies covering every sector of the economy we're on track to meet and beat our 2020 target, which is a five per cent reduction on 2000 levels. In terms of Australia's 2030 target of reducing emissions by 26 to 28 per cent below 2005 levels, we believe that is ambitious and responsible. It's equivalent to a 52 per cent reduction in Australia's per person emissions, amongst the highest of any G20 country. Australia's cumulative emissions reduction task to 2030 is now projected to be 868 million tonnes, a 26 per cent target. It is an improvement of over 120 million tonnes on the last estimate, which was published in December 2016. This government will continue to take achievable, responsible, reasonable action over the longer term, and all of the material that I've provided for Senator McCarthy goes to that.