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

The answer to that is no. As I said in the primary answer, the Prime Minister has already responded to the IPCC report in a press conference earlier today, and, as I outlined, the government takes seriously the challenges of addressing global climate change. We take it seriously as a government, and it's why we're investing some $20 billion on low-emissions technologies over the next decades, with $1.6 billion committed just through this 2021-22 budget. It's why, during the Prime Minister's recent visit overseas, he signed partnership agreements that now see us in partnership arrangements with Singapore, Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom to deliver the low-emissions technologies that the globe needs to be able to deliver and achieve net zero emissions. The 2021-22 budget particularly dedicated $565 million to progress international research projects, knowing that those international projects of cooperation are the things that will actually deliver the technological changes to get the job done.