Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance and Administration) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

On 29 March, Senator Milne asked me, as the Minister representing the Prime Minister, a question without notice about support for PNG forest protection. I undertook to obtain an answer for Senator Milne. I now have that answer and I seek leave to have it incorporated in Hansard.

Leave granted.

The answer read as follows—

Australia recently hosted the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Workshop on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Cairns from 7 to 9 March 2007. At that meeting, a number of proposals were discussed and considered, including that proposed by Papua New Guinea. Australia will remain active in discussing possible approaches both through dialogue in the UNFCCC and in the ongoing development of the Australian Government’s Global Initiative on Forests and Climate Change.