David Shoebridge (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Trade and Tourism (Senator Farrell) to a question without notice asked by Senator Waters today relating to climate change.

This week Australia and the world received their last warning from the IPCC about the dangerous pathway that we're on and the climate danger we face with the current settings and if we don't keep coal and gas in the ground. Of course, it wasn't just the IPCC that blew the whistle on the Labor government's flawed policies for dealing with the climate. We saw some 54 climate and environment organisations deliver an open letter to the Albanese government this week, calling on them to prevent any further new coal and gas developments in Australia, and that's what the IPCC has said is absolutely needed.

The organisations who wrote the open letter include 350 Australia; Friends of the Earth Australia; GetUp; Greenpeace; Original Power; Oxfam Australia; the Wilderness Society; Environmental Justice Australia; Comms Declare; Common Grace; Move Beyond Coal; Co Power; caha; Lock the Gate; Environment Victoria; the Conservation Council SA; the Queensland Conservation Council; the Environment Centre NT; the Australia Institute; the Edmund Rice Centre; WA Climate Leaders; the Pacific Islands Council of Queensland; the Environment Council of Central Queensland; even the Labor Environment Action Network in the Northern Territory; Environs Kimberley; Wodonga and Albury Towards Climate Health, WATCH; Climate Action Newcastle; Darebin Climate Action Now; Zero Emissions Noosa; Environment Victoria South Eastern Volunteers; Surfers for Climate—listen to the surfers; Australian Marine Conservation Society; Parra CAN; Climate Action Canberra; Cairns and Far North Environment Centre; SERCA; the Green Institute; the Australian Rainforest Conservation Society; the Climate Justice Union; C4CE; the Bayside Climate Crisis Action Group; ShireCAN; the People's Climate Assembly; CLIMARTE Emergency: Action; Glen Eira Emergency Climate Action Network; the Community Power Agency; Climate Emergency Australia; Lighter Footprints; Psychology for a Safe Climate; ARRCC; Australian Parents for Climate Action; Green Music Australia; cedamia; and Vote Earth Now. Fifty-four organisations signed the letter demanding climate action and demanding that the Albanese government change its policies and keep coal and gas in the ground. Will the Albanese government listen?

Question agreed to.