Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Birmingham. Today, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on the world to make peace with nature and to address the climate emergency. He said:

The state of the planet is broken. Humanity is waging war on nature.

Secretary-General Guterres has called on nations to be more ambitious. The planet is already sick. The Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, meanwhile, is fiddling around with dates in the second half of the century to reduce carbon pollution to net zero. The goalposts have shifted. Net zero by 2050 is no longer enough. Does the Prime Minister know this? Does he understand that we need net zero by 2035 or earlier? What is the Prime Minister doing to address this crisis and this war on nature?