Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Emergency Management) Share this | Hansard source

It's passing strange to be asked about the effectiveness of climate action because I don't believe that Senator Roberts actually wishes it to be successful.

However, I will say this. At COP28, the information that delegates received was that the projections had been for a four-degree increase in temperature and that that had been reduced to three degrees based on the actions that had been taken by states to date. Three-degree average global warming is actually a very troubling number. It offers very disturbing consequences for many Australians, including Australians in your home state, Senator Roberts. There is a heatwave warning in place today for the peninsula region of Queensland, and there are flooding warnings in Queensland. All of the advice before us suggests that the extreme weather events that Queenslanders are exposed to are only going to increase as a consequence of a warming climate.

It is in Australia's interests for there to be effective global action to contain warming. That's why we are— (Time expired)