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

The Australian Greens do like to, as always, talk down Australia, and they do that in terms of the targets that we commit to as a nation as well. The simple fact is that achieving our 2030 targets will see emissions per capita in Australia fall by almost half if we achieve those 2030 targets, as we are on track to do. Emissions per unit of GDP would fall by almost two-thirds under our commitment scenario.

Our commitments are significant, and they're significant as well because of our history of emissions reduction and of meeting those targets. Our emissions have fallen by 20 per cent since 2005. We beat our Kyoto-era targets by 459 million tonnes. Between 2005 and 2019 Australia reduced emissions faster than many other nations and will continue to do that through the technology based approach. (Time expired)