Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

Our commitment to a 26 to 28 per cent reduction by 2030 is, in capita terms, one of the most significant commitments made in the world. By GDP terms, it is a significant reduction of Australia's emissions intensity, again, far greater than commitments made by most other nations around the world. Australia goes forward determined to meet those targets and, as the Prime Minister and I and others have repeatedly said, to beat those commitments we made for the 2030 horizon. Our ambition ought to be to beat them by as comfortable a margin if not more than the way we are already beating and forecast to beat our 2020 targets, which is a substantial excess that Australia has managed to achieve in relation to the 2020 targets. And the ambitions we take forward by backing technology and technological change in Australia that can help to drive technological change overseas are about making sure we do successfully beat those targets.