Lyn Allison (Victoria, Australian Democrats) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that recent research of Drs Raupach and Fraser from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s Marine and Atmospheric Research group found that:

(i)

7.9 billion tonnes of carbon were emitted into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide in 2005 and the rate of increase is accelerating,

(ii)

between 2000 and 2005, carbon dioxide emissions rose by more than 2.5 per cent a year,

(iii)

in 1990 emissions were increasing less than 1 per cent a year, and

(iv)

on the current path it will be difficult to rein in carbon emissions enough to stabilise the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration at 450 parts per million; and

(b)

calls on the Federal Government to act urgently to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and:

(i)

ratify the Kyoto Protocol, and

(ii)

introduce a carbon price signal.

Question put.