Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Senator Canavan is correct, this time, that cabinet modelling on 2050 net zero is rubbish and it should be released for public examination and scrutiny. There is simply no path to net zero under which gas will increase. The modelling will show what the cabinet wants it to show in order to solve the government's political problem—that they can convince their MPs that there's some magical fairyland ahead where demand for Australia's fossil fuels will be greater than it is today. But in fact the International Energy Agency just last week surveyed those countries that have lifted their 2030 targets—customers of our coal and gas exports—and their analysis was that, if they meet those commitments, global use of fossil fuels will peak by 2025 and fall thereafter. They can also expect the clean energy market under net zero to be worth $1.2 trillion a year, greater than today's oil market. So let's not waste any more time and get on with creating the hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs. (Time expired)

Question agreed to.