Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I can go through what was said publicly about some of the changes. As I said, there was a lot of discussion about four-wheel drives. There was a recategorisation of a limited number of four-wheel drives from passenger car to light commercial vehicle. This includes models such as the LandCruiser and the Nissan Patrol. This acknowledges that some offroad wagons use similar ladder-frame chassis and have towing capacity of three tonnes, comparable to dual-cab utes. There's a smoothing of the emissions trajectory for light commercial vehicles. As you might recall, I think it was yesterday that I was asked by Senator McKenzie about the changes to the US's EPA vehicle standard. The change reflects that. There was an adjustment to the weight based relative emissions limits, which is known as the break point, which recognises that heavier vehicles emit more, and there was staged implementation.

The cumulative abatement, I am advised in the fact sheet, is 20 million tonnes to 2030 and 80 million to 2035. (Time expired)