Senate debates

Tuesday, 25 February 2020

Questions without Notice

Climate Change

2:27 pm

Photo of Raff CicconeRaff Ciccone (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

ABARES estimates that over the last two decades more than $1 billion—that's right, $1 billion—has been wiped from annual agriculture production due to climate change. Does the minister accept the University of Melbourne's recent findings that failure to reach net zero emissions, which is required to meet our obligations under the Paris Agreement, is estimated to cost $211 billion in agricultural and labour productivity losses?

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