Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—I move the motion as amended:

That the Senate:

(a)

notes that the Australian Government has called for a new global framework on climate change that includes all major emitters;

(b)

notes that, at its annual summit held from 6 June to 8 June 2007, the Group of Eight (G8):

(i)

agreed that the United Nations (UN) climate process is the appropriate forum for negotiating future global action on climate change,

(ii)

called on all parties to actively and constructively participate in the UN Climate Change Conference to be held in Indonesia in December 2007 with a view to achieving a comprehensive post 2012-agreement (post Kyoto-agreement) that should include all major emitters, and

(iii)

stressed that further action should be based on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and capabilities; and

(c)

agrees with the above resolutions of the G8 meeting.

Question put.