Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

(1) That the Senate notes that, on 10 February 2020, Senator Cormann stated that climate change is human induced.

(2) That there be laid on the table by the Leader of the Government in the Senate, by 10 am on 24 February 2020:

(a) a list of titles of reports and publications which the Government relies upon for this belief; and

(b) for each publication specify the page numbers on which are presented the evidence that carbon dioxide from human activity affects climate and needs to be cut.

Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to make a short statement.

Scott Ryan (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Leave is granted for one minute.

Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

We acknowledge the need to take action to reduce global emissions to mitigate the risk of climate change. The science on man-made climate change is clear: climate change is playing a role in driving increasing temperatures, more severe droughts and longer fire seasons.

Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to make a short statement.

Scott Ryan (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Leave is granted for one minute.

Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Greens support this OPD on the basis that Senator Roberts actually reads the documents that are provided, and we suggest that the government do the same. But there's no need for provision of the likely thousands of reports that could be captured by this OPD. Really, the government need only table the IPCC's 1.5 degrees report to see the hideous trajectory that we're on, to see the serious consequences and to see the actions that need to be taken.

Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to make a short statement.

Scott Ryan (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Leave is granted for one minute.

Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Labor will also support this motion but agree with the comments by Senator Waters in terms of what the government produces—that is, that a reasonable list of reports be tabled. I don't think we need necessarily specify page numbers, but we do expect that the government would have available to it a list of titles of reports and publications which the government relies on in acknowledging that climate change is real.

Question agreed to.