Senate debates
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
Questions without Notice
Australian Bushfires
2:30 pm
Janet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source
The unprecedented burning that's occurred this fire season has been with only one degree of global heating, yet this government's feeble climate policy has us on track for 3.4 degrees of global heating by the end of the century. How does our government expect that our forests and, indeed, our timber plantations are going to survive that? What does a planet that is 3.4 degrees hotter mean for smoke choking our cities, water from forested catchments, endangered animals and, indeed, for the future— (Time expired)
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